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There's 0 chance that you'll be able to respond to a 2400% increase in traffic/usage in under 43 seconds!

You don't need to be on a cloud to support that. Dedicated is so much cheaper/more powerful than typical cloud machines that you can have a surplus of machines ready for your bidding and still pay less than the cloud +end up with way more processing power.

Also, you don't need to own/mange the hardware- Hosting companies will lease it to you + repair it when things go wrong



Yeah, even if one could scale up his web/app farms 2400% so fast, I'd really like to see a database that scales up/out this well :-)


You should look into NoSQL. It's web scale!


MongoDb? ;-)




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