[iconfinder]

Why did you go for Ruby instead of PHP?

Would you have had the (roughly) same database issues if you didn't have that many writes to the db?

[jrirei]

We did go for Ruby in order to increase developer productivity (having a very small team of just two developers), and good code quality/high test coverage. We were sure we needed to refactor a lot later on. So Ruby seems like a good choice. But Ruby is NOT good at waiting no a database / network latency. But I guess with PHP we would have had exactly the same problems.

[iconfinder]

Did you compare bare bones PHP with Ruby or PHP with a library such as Zend?

I curious because I'm considering recoding a large part of a website and are trying to avoid scaling issues.

Thank you for the answer.