I have an app (Fast Friends -- originally Top Nine) with 125,000 users and absolutely no problems hosting -- I'm actually running two apps off the same server. I'm sure if I had won the user war against Slide I'd need a dedicated server ;)
Unless you have a media intensive application (ex: video, music, etc...), hosting isn't really that bad. I would venture to guess apps like "X Me" and "SuperPoke" would do with a single powerful dedicated server, since theres really not much going on. Also, Facebook hosts the images on any profile, so any bandwidth there is only needed until their proxy server picks up the image.
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I have an app (Fast Friends -- originally Top Nine) with 125,000 users and absolutely no problems hosting -- I'm actually running two apps off the same server. I'm sure if I had won the user war against Slide I'd need a dedicated server ;)
Unless you have a media intensive application (ex: video, music, etc...), hosting isn't really that bad. I would venture to guess apps like "X Me" and "SuperPoke" would do with a single powerful dedicated server, since theres really not much going on. Also, Facebook hosts the images on any profile, so any bandwidth there is only needed until their proxy server picks up the image.