Submission + - Create an enterprise web site on a low budget?
leeet writes: "I have two questions for the slashdot community. I work at a very small (early mode) start-up and we have little or no budget at this time. We have some questions regarding our architecture and I thought you guys would be able to help other geeks like us.
1. We need to start writing our software but we'd like to write it so that we'll need as little hardware as possible in the future. Of course regardless of the language used the application must be well coded but without this in mind, what platform do you think is the best for very intensive web sites (i.e. lots and lots of SQL queries — think Google)? I can think of a few solutions (ruby on rails, PHP) but I would like some feedback from developpers and or system designers as far as performance/load capacity. As stated, we must rely on open source since our budget will be spent on hardware.
2. Regarding server hardware, since we'd like to optimize the cost vs. performance (i.e. think the way Google is setup). I'm thinking cheap AMD64 clusters as they support more than 4G of RAM, they are cooler (temperature-wise) and Linux runs well on them. Since our database will be huge and distributed (i.e. think MySpace or Yahoo), I'd like to stick with machines which can support more than 4G in order to maximise the cost ratio.
Any help is truly appreciated."
1. We need to start writing our software but we'd like to write it so that we'll need as little hardware as possible in the future. Of course regardless of the language used the application must be well coded but without this in mind, what platform do you think is the best for very intensive web sites (i.e. lots and lots of SQL queries — think Google)? I can think of a few solutions (ruby on rails, PHP) but I would like some feedback from developpers and or system designers as far as performance/load capacity. As stated, we must rely on open source since our budget will be spent on hardware.
2. Regarding server hardware, since we'd like to optimize the cost vs. performance (i.e. think the way Google is setup). I'm thinking cheap AMD64 clusters as they support more than 4G of RAM, they are cooler (temperature-wise) and Linux runs well on them. Since our database will be huge and distributed (i.e. think MySpace or Yahoo), I'd like to stick with machines which can support more than 4G in order to maximise the cost ratio.
Any help is truly appreciated."
