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by andylim 4120 days ago
Create/join a chatroom, invite your friends, and talk about any topic! Also, please provide any feedback here :)
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Nice site, well-designed; however, I do think it will face a chicken-and-egg type of problem unless you can scale very quickly though.
So right now we are using a MongoDB replicaset which can be scaled. We are going to move to AWS soon instead of a single node for the web server. I think the most difficult thing to scale might be the actual chat server, but we've done some load tests and it can manage at least 500 concurrent users right now. Scaling the chat server will be the first thing I work on after finishing the last remaining basic features.