On Fri, 2006-12-15 at 09:30 +0100, Jochem Maas wrote: > Robert Cummings wrote: > > On Thu, 2006-12-14 at 23:40 +0100, Jochem Maas wrote: > > > I doubt they were stupid enough to shell out that kind of cash to on a php-nuke install, > > > > Why not? It's not the code they want, it's the traffic. You can have the > > best code in the world and if 0 people visit it, it's pretty worthless > > to anyone but you. > > you are right - I was implicitly thinking along the lines that there is no > way in hell a php-nuke install could stand up to amount of requests/processing > youtube must cope with. Definitely not on one computer, but if you offload to say 30 servers, you can probably process 100 million hits per day. Servers are probably cheap compared to their bandwidth costs. > there is a good reason that properties like Yahoo (which uses php of course) stick all > the heavy lifting code in php extensions written in C. True, but nothing stopping a site like youtube from taking a shoddy app and moving some of the heavy lifting into extensions themselves. > then there is the issue of differentiation - would *you* settle for some generic POS > piece of software if you had billions of dollar to invest in build a custom, killer app? Probably not, but I know that millions of people everyday settle for Microsoft ;) Some of these people probably have a few spare billion dollars... not me though :| > okay, sure, everything in software land is eventually comoditized and available as > open source eventually, but right now there are no google-video type applications out > there that can handle the amount of traffic the mentioned sites handle. Id on't think the code is the bottleneck, I think the bottle neck is the 200 to 400 terabytes of data youtube transfers everyday. > there is also the premise that youtube wouldn't be youtube if it were running on php-nuke, > for the simple fact it would have been hacked to death. no? Well, that's definitely a valid point, no argument from me there heheh. Cheers, Rob. -- .------------------------------------------------------------. | InterJinn Application Framework - http://www.interjinn.com | :------------------------------------------------------------: | An application and templating framework for PHP. Boasting | | a powerful, scalable system for accessing system services | | such as forms, properties, sessions, and caches. InterJinn | | also provides an extremely flexible architecture for | | creating re-usable components quickly and easily. | `------------------------------------------------------------' -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
