[gabemart]

I'm a bit surprised by the replies talking about serving millions of requests a second, or needing ultra-consistent packet latency. Perhaps most of the HN demo is working for companies that operate at that scale.

But the OP is talking about running dozens of servers, not hundreds or thousands. My own modest apps have held up to the traffic from being #1 on reddit and not fallen over, never been null routed or nerfed by DO, and served hundreds of millions of requests and hundreds of TBs of data. I have nothing but good things to say about DO.

I have no experience running apps at the "millions of requests a second" scale, and I'm willing to accept DO might be a bad choice at that level. But what percentage of apps will ever reach that scale?

[user5994461]

>>> I'm a bit surprised by the replies talking about serving millions of requests a second, or needing ultra-consistent packet latency. Perhaps most of the HN demo is working for companies that operate at that scale.

There is a high concentration of serious professionals on HN running world class operations. There is also a large amount of startup and single man operations who would hate to write a $100 check.

The thing is, one can only be on one side. Then the other side has nothing valuable to say to you, all their advice is misplaced.

So, to answer your question. It's stupid to ask what apps will reach a large scale. You're either at large scale already or you are not. Obviously, the article is only intended for small scale operations (actually, the entire article is just a generic ad, digitalocean has a nice affiliate program).