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> You have to keep in mind we're ridiculously over-provisioned, we're handling that load while maintaining 10-15% utilization on 3 year old web servers.

So you've premature-optimized for performance far past the point where you gained anything from it?

I'm not saying you shouldn't be happy with your performance, but if the best thing you can say about your platform is "it has adequate performance" then, well, it's not a very compelling platform.




Not at all, we did the performance optimizations to make page loads faster for our users...the side effect is less load on our servers.

It's an awesome platform for us and we love it...you should choose whatever platform works for you.




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