Yeah the fact that the original speech was already melodic I think helps a lot.

*blocked

"Boxy is both annoying as hell and unintentionally hilarious as hell. The trolling meme from her is probably the only one I've ever laughed aloud at though."

Agreed, I've been on a letter writing campaign to get Colbert to accuse Glen Beck of trolling complete with hand motions. I think this would probably cause the internet to implode.

ok, fixed, but with hulu embed. Sorry out of us'ers. I fixed it twice with random youtube embeds but they keep getting nuked so I figure this one will stay around.

*discard

Yeah I knew that you read it after down voting, but I saw your name prior to the comment about it. Just pointing out that you made a comment about it while in full knowledge of why I did it. As if you were tttttrolllllllinggggggg!!!!

//the above should be read as if I'm not trying to start some shit... just wanted to drop a boxy reference like it was hot.

oh come on rasch187, you were reading my sift talk post. You know why I re promoted it. No reason to be a hater.

Maybe you just need a bag of weed?

ok, so it's back in the top 15, but is still missing on the home page. I went ahead and promoted it. I suppose I had a bit of a knee jerk reaction. Apologies, I'm just convinced this video is gold.

*promote

*undead

I may promote it if it's still languishing tomorrow. Figured I would let it try the natural route first.

*promote

*notdead

Hey Campionidelmondo,

You are certainly right that there is room for improvement. There will always be room for improvement. I'm just saying that I don't think any large scale website that I know of is running on stock software. I would like to define large scale as more than 80,000 page views a day.

Yes you can certainly bend a CMS into doing whatever you want, but I think you ultimately are losing performance when you do that. Our SQL querries / tables have been optimized to do exactly what we need them to do. If you take the underlying schema for an existing CMS and bend it to your will you are probably also having to do certain things on the back end that destroy any original performance boosts.

Ultimately though the issues with videosift performance have more to do with the amount of dynamic data on the page. Take a look at just this page, there are over 100+ comments, numerous users, and 5 or 6 distinct sidebar data panels. That's a lot of querries to run regardless of the hardware.

I think ultimately a key factor in understanding the need for beefy videosift servers is a quick look at the total number of indexed pages from google. Right now it's hovering just under a million but in reality there are over 3 million possible pages if not more than that. Google will ocassionally trim their results. Anyway you shake it that's a ton of data. You only get about 211,000 for techcrunch.

I just kicked in $100, but I wanted to respond to at least one comment in this thread.

"What I would be interested in is the system this site is built upon, namely VaroCMS. If this site was built upon a well-known system, such as Wordpress, Joomla, etc etc I could rest assured that it operates very efficiently, without a lot of bandwidth or server power going to waste. With the closed-source system VaroCMS I'm not so sure."


AHHHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHA....

As a web developer I can tell you unequivocally that what you say about Joomla and Wordpress is WRONG WRONG WRONG.

Here's a google search for "word
press performance problem" you may note that there are 6.5 million results. Wordpress is famously shitty at managing high volumes of traffic.

and here's the same search for Joomla. Smaller number, but I think that has more to do with Joomla adoption. You have to really really hate yourself to want to run Joomla. Beyond that wordpress and Joomla are not really designed for the type of site that Videosift is. Wordpress is a blogging solution, but I would be willing to bet deputy dog can tell you about his growing pains as he became reddit / diggs favorite poster of all things list related.

Beyond that though working with Joomla is like signing up to be kicked in the balls every time you edit a file. I have NEVER worked with anything I liked less than Joomla and I've test driven every major frame work, CMS, what have you out there.

Varo is lean mean and committed to running Videosift. These other technologies are convenient for small scale sites without large user bases or dynamic content, but they can really become a PITA when you are talking about managing large dynamic communities. I promise you that the cost of ownership of Varo is much much lower than trying to shoehorn a bull like Joomla into doing all of the things we know and love about Videosift.

A long long time ago in a galaxy far away we ran Pligg, which is a digg like CMS. We moved away from it because it was a pain to edit, and the decision to do that has ultimately empowered all of the major functionality boosts that Rommel has added since then.