Shoestring Budget? Starting to feel growth issues on your back-end? Embrace unix and C
I'm one of the co-founders of Media Wombat ( flash search engine at http://mediawombat.com ) and we're a startup that's about 8 months old. We have no funding except what we can afford to do ourselves, no investors and very little spare hardware. Our site is a search engine - like google, but for flash content. We threw together the site in a weekend and have been slowly tweaking it over time but recently have run into some growth issues. If you have funding or investors and have growth issues, you can just throw more hardware at the problem and ta-da! You're fast again. However, for those of us who don't have money being thrown at us, we have to be a little more creative and start to look at optimization. I've got a couple of old machines and an 8-drive SCSI RAID in my basement that I'm using for our search engine to crawl the web and process the data that we index for our search engine
Why it failed
I'm one of the co-founders of Media Wombat ( flash search engine at http://mediawombat.com ) and we're a startup that's about 8 months old. We have no funding except what we can afford to do ourselves, no investors and very little spare hardware. Our site is a search engine - lik
- Kind
- startup
- Status
- Shut down
- Inventor
- scumola
- Ended
- 2008
- Source
- hackernews