i've noticed something with MT ... i haven't googled this anywhere, so i really don't have any *valid* claims to back this all up, but MT.cgi seems to be *very* server intensive.

i monitor my servers quite constantly nowadays (i usually leave the TOP command on in putty while I work and toggle). i always notice a few sites on the np.net servers using MT ... and MT.cgi always is on the process list for at least 40 seconds eating at least 50% of memory resources, boosting my load averages up by at least 25%. of course, i'm not sure what the person is doing - perhaps they're rebuilding their whole database or something. i don't know.

then again, perl has never been known to be a non-cpu intensive language - there was a distinct reason everyone moved away from perl-based bulletin boards for PHP/mySQL.

this makes me start to doubt the viability of typepad. of course, they are only going to be paid accounts ... but logically i cannot see more than 50 high-traffic sites per server for typepad (i pulled that number out of my ass) ... i make no valid claims for tabulas; i know this thing is a memory hog as well with shitty SQL queries and such (i will clean those up before 1.0 hopefully).

but i guess what i'm going back to is the fact that LJ focuses more on the memory consumption aspects rather than user interface or user features, which is a damn good thing. of course, i'm focusing more on designs and UI than memory consumption ... and typepad... well i don't know what typepad is focusing on. ok. enough of that ...