Re: [WebDNA] Serial numbers and pricing for WebDNA 7.0
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numero = 106104
interpreted = N
texte = >=20 > WebDNA is a pretty stable and mature product. There will be updates if = we can further improve it, or even new versions if some interesting new = features are suggested. I just don't want to fall into the Microsoft or = Adobe policy which is to add a new version every year just to make = customers feel they need it, but finally get disappointed because there = is nothing really new. Hi Chris! Your comment above was good and thought-provoking too. I am have one big new project coming up and am torn between doing it in = Webdna (what is faster, what I know thoroughly, and what I love) versus = doing it in PHP (which I want to learn ever more because I get work in = it and because it is so commonplace). But anyway the only real main = reason I am hesitant to use Webdna is because I am expecting the new = site to become extremely busy at some point and the central databases to = become huge (in the GBs). Webdna does have all the tools I would need, = but the one area I have not been 100% confident is in watching people = complain off and on over the years that when a site gets 'too much' = traffic.. and when there is *a lot* of RAM db activity.. then their site = comes to a crawl (like maybe this is even what is making the = http://www.webdna.us site so slow?), or worse yet Webdna has to be = restarted regularly. Perhaps all these years it was always due to some = memory leak that has meanwhile been fixed in v.7? (like for example it = took one of my clients until a few months ago to discover that one = achilles heel in her site was [appending] records by the thousands (even = to a purely RAM [table]!) caused Webdna to hang). I am nervous about = being the new guinea pig. I wold feel somewhat more confident about it = if I knew that the SQL tags were 100% mature and robust, so that I could = make my HUGE dbs in SQL (maybe MySQL) .. but I have never used SQL = outside of PHP and I am not even sure Webdna's SQL tags are current. = Are they? For MySQL? Are you, or is anyone here, using them for real = *large/heavily-trafficked* mission critical projects? ------------ Govinda
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>=20 > WebDNA is a pretty stable and mature product. There will be updates if = we can further improve it, or even new versions if some interesting new = features are suggested. I just don't want to fall into the Microsoft or = Adobe policy which is to add a new version every year just to make = customers feel they need it, but finally get disappointed because there = is nothing really new. Hi Chris! Your comment above was good and thought-provoking too. I am have one big new project coming up and am torn between doing it in = Webdna (what is faster, what I know thoroughly, and what I love) versus = doing it in PHP (which I want to learn ever more because I get work in = it and because it is so commonplace). But anyway the only real main = reason I am hesitant to use Webdna is because I am expecting the new = site to become extremely busy at some point and the central databases to = become huge (in the GBs). Webdna does have all the tools I would need, = but the one area I have not been 100% confident is in watching people = complain off and on over the years that when a site gets 'too much' = traffic.. and when there is *a lot* of RAM db activity.. then their site = comes to a crawl (like maybe this is even what is making the = http://www.webdna.us site so slow?), or worse yet Webdna has to be = restarted regularly. Perhaps all these years it was always due to some = memory leak that has meanwhile been fixed in v.7? (like for example it = took one of my clients until a few months ago to discover that one = achilles heel in her site was [appending] records by the thousands (even = to a purely RAM
[table]!) caused Webdna to hang). I am nervous about = being the new guinea pig. I wold feel somewhat more confident about it = if I knew that the SQL tags were 100% mature and robust, so that I could = make my HUGE dbs in SQL (maybe MySQL) .. but I have never used SQL = outside of PHP and I am not even sure Webdna's SQL tags are current. = Are they? For MySQL? Are you, or is anyone here, using them for real = *large/heavily-trafficked* mission critical projects? ------------ Govinda
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