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revorad on Aug 30, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why must you laugh at my back end?

I wanted to give them a try but if a scalable database company can't handle HN traffic, it makes me think twice.

endtime on Aug 30, 2011 [–]

They may be using something cheap for their homepage because they (understandably) don't expect to get hit hard there.

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