How do independent Facebook application developers compete against the 800-lb gorillas of Facebook, Slide and RockYou? Slide and RockYou seem to prove economies of scale. From Craig Ulliot - developer of 50K+ daily user FB application 'Where I've been'
"Well my application has become incredibly popular, and I'm very excited about it, don't get me wrong!
But I'm a freelance developer, not a company, and its put a powerful 4GB $450 a month dedicated server on 3 backbones at maximum load and is pushing 2000GB a month in traffic. It doesn't make me any money and I'm getting hundreds of comments and emails daily about it.
How can i support it and maintain it? What do i do with it now? its growing at a few users a second, so should i get another server each month?"
"Well my application has become incredibly popular, and I'm very excited about it, don't get me wrong!
But I'm a freelance developer, not a company, and its put a powerful 4GB $450 a month dedicated server on 3 backbones at maximum load and is pushing 2000GB a month in traffic. It doesn't make me any money and I'm getting hundreds of comments and emails daily about it.
How can i support it and maintain it? What do i do with it now? its growing at a few users a second, so should i get another server each month?"
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