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This really scares me, because I have a site with the exact same beginning architecture on the exact same hosting provider..

I guess I had best get to work.

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Please don't get to work scaling your architecture yet. Work on making your app awesome and wanted by lots of people.

Trust me, I've been bitten by this problem myself. It's so easy to get really worried about the number of hits you're going to take. It's also so easy to get really excited about the scaling challenges.

But, quite frankly, the chances of you getting featured on yahoo.com are miniscule! First focus on getting there by creating something cool. Then focus on scaling.

That's what I've been doing so far. I'm trying not to fall into the trap of premature-scalingitis. But the original article points out that the need for scaling up does not always come at a time of one's choosing. And that's kind of scary.

And then as if the gods of scaling were taunting me, right as I posted this, my front-end web server ran out of memory and started thrashing. I had to hard-reboot it to recover.

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