Finding an excellent LAMP developer

Hi... I have this idea to start a really great and scalable website, and I am building it! So far I'm doing everything myself - coding, networking, architecture planning, everything. I haven't even gotten into the legal aspects yet....... It would be MUCH easier if I had a technical person to handle that end of the operation. I'm a good coder, but like Bill Gates at Harvard for Math, I'm not the very best. I'd like to FIND that very best person available, to handle the technical aspects. For worse or better, I don't presently know somebody who fits this bill. I've posted a bazillion ads on Craig's List, with no really qualified responses. I've put out feelers among my own network, same result. Not sure what else I can do. Shoestring budget, so it's sweat equity in the beginning. That can actually be a plus, as it forces people to focus. Any ideas about what else I can do, to attract the right person? Thanks Jason

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This was a porn/spam post

Seems as though anonymous users can edit old posts w/o any authentication. This post was loaded with spam/porn links. Now it is not. /anonymous

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Amazon SimpleDB - Scalable Cloud Database

Amazon has announced the limited beta of Amazon SimpleDB - a simple web services interface to create and store multiple data sets, query your data easily, and return the results. Together with the Simple Storage Service (S3), Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and other web services Amazon offers a complete utility computing platform. SimpleDB was the missing piece of AWS - the scalable structured database. Check out my blog entry: http://innowave.blogspot.com/2007/12/amazon-simpledb-scalable-cloud-database.html I was waiting for this one :-) Geekr

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Hosting and CDN for startup video sharing site

This question is for all the gurus here. Please help this novice x I am starting a video sharing site like YouTube in India. I want to offer the best quality possible, at minimum cost. Nothing new about it, right? :). I have done some research on the dedicated hosting services and CDN services available and I have some basic knowledge on these. Following are my requirements 1) My budget is $500 to $1000 per month for hosting (including CDN if and as applicable). 2) I will need around 500GB of storage and 1TB per month of bandwidth in first 2-3 months and then about 10TB of storage and 5TB per month of bandwidth. And more ... depending on how big it gets (I can afford more when it gets big) 3) 90% of my viewers are in India. Other 10% are in US and UK. Based on the above, could you please answer my following questions? 1) Can I go with just a good dedicated server to start with and get a CDN service later on when the site gets big? Or do you think its wise to start with a CDN service? 2) Should I look for a server closer to India? They are pretty expensive in Asia? Should I look for one in Western Europe or at least Western US? How big a difference does it make? 3) Could you suggest the best dedicated hosting and CDN service based on my requirements? 4) I can get unmetered bandwidth on a 100Mbps pipe for my budget. Do you think that will be fine to start with? 5) Anything else I am missing? Also, could you also please give any tips on how to minimize the bandwidth (buffering, lower bitrate etc..)? Thanks a lot for your suggestions!

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Future of EJB3 !! ??

What is the future of EJB3 in the industry , given the current trends ? There are a lot of arguments regarding EJB3 being heavy weighted ..... Also, what could be the alternatives of EJB3 ? How about the scalability, persistence, performance and other factors ?

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1 Master, N Slaves

Hello all, Reading the site you can note that "1 Master for writes, N Slaves for reads" scheme is used offen. How is this implemented? Who decides where writes and reads go? Something in application level or specific database proxies, like Slony-I? Thanks.

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thesimsonstage.ea.com

Could anyone make an overview of thesimsonstage.ea.com architecture, i.e. some stats, wich technology thay use, how they implement karaoke flash-based player, which media server they use, how many bandwidth does it need, etc. Any information will be helpful. Thanks.

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Synchronizing databases in different geographic locations

Our company offers a web service that is provided to users from several different hosting centers across the globe. The content and functionality at each of the servers is almost exactly the same, and we could have based them all in a single location. However, we chose to distribute the servers geographically to offer our users the best performance, regardless where they might be. Up until now, the only content on the servers that has had to be synchronized is the server software itself. The features and functionality of our service are being updated regularly, so every week or two we push updates out to all the servers at basically the same time. We use a relatively manual approach to do the updating, but it works fine. Sometime soon, however, our synchronization needs are going to get a bit more complex. In particular, we'll soon start offering a feature at our site that will involve a database with content that will change on an almost second-by-second basis, based on user input and activity. For performance reasons, a complete instance of this database will have to be present locally at each of our server locations. At the same time, the content of the database will have to be synchronized across all server locations, so that users get the same database content, regardless of the server they choose to visit. We have not yet chosen the database that we'll use for this functionality, although we are leaning towards MySql. (We are also considering PostgreSQL.) So, my question for the assembled experts is: What approach is the best one for us to use to synchronize the database instances across our servers? Ideally, we'd like a solution that is resilient to a server location becoming unavailable, and we'd also prefer a solution that makes efficient use of bandwidth. (Processing power doesn't cost us a lot; bandwidth, on the other hand, can get expensive.) FWIW ... (1) Our servers run Apache and Tomcat on top of Centos. (2) I've found the following "how to" that suggests an approach involving MySQL that could address our needs: http://capttofu.livejournal.com/1752.html Thanks!

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how to: Load Balancing with iis

hello world, can you tell me how i can implement a load balancing of a web site running under iis - windows server 2003/08

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many website, one setup, many databases

Hi, I will need to host abound 500-1000 websites, all of them use drupal, What I thought was, to make all of these websites point to a single setup of drupal and make them run from there. I thought of using different databases for each website.. Do you think it'll work? Is there a better way to go about it?

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