[1/2] It seems like one side effect of standard server stacks being so slow is that when you go to rent a dedicated server, you get something with massively more horsepower than its uplink could really use.
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[2/2] Pricing out one server provider, their _lowest_ horsepower machines ran from ~$60/mo for 86 cycles _per byte_ to ~$130/mo for 217 cycles per byte of traffic. Granted, HTTPS takes some of that away by being spectacularly awful, but still. 217 cycles for every single byte!
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Replying to @cmuratori
I am sure I will one day have this rude awakening to reality that the root of all software performance issues is that in the grand scheme of things, no one, I repeat, no one, including users, give a fuck.
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Replying to @AshkanAliabadi @cmuratori
If you don't think users think IT sucks and hate using and/or working with computers, you haven't spoken to users.
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Replying to @_tskj_ @cmuratori
Then why is it that we don't see rock solid, high performing software more often? If users in a free market economy get to vote with their dollars, and the players are free to compete to cater to the users' demands to win their business, then why the current situation?
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Isn't it perhaps because in the grand scheme of things performance is comparatively at the bottom of the priority list for an end user? By the way I do performance for a living. It pains me to say this, but I cannot shake the suspicion that the majority simply don't care.
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It is because performance is very difficult, so the consumer usually does not get any options other than slow software. It is similar to the claim "consumers don't want an electric car". Turns out they do, once someone actually manages to make one.
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