| Just a few points: 1) If traffic is low enough, you can fit 100+ different apps on 8GB of RAM, regardless of tech. 2) Hourly backups are better than nothing, but not good enough if you want to make claims of durability and/or high availability. 3) BizSpark is more or less a loophole (they don't always accept), and when they do, you have to hope you go out of business w/in 5 years or never make more than $1M in revenue, or you're out. 4) Snarky comments about what the "cool kids" are doing hardly (in)validates anything. 5) If you enjoy the Microsoft stack and it works for you, then awesome. We're developers and should enjoy what we work on day in and day out. 6) My current projects have me bouncing back and forth between Node.js and .NET on a daily basis. Aside from getting an order of magnitude more enjoyment from developing w/ node, I'll also add that our node servers (plural) have been running for ~2 years for a total cost that isn't even approaching the cost of my Visual Studio license. If that makes me a "cool kid", then I'll rock that sag all the way to the bank (if cool kids are still sagging, that is). |