Thread: Why aren't there more free dating sites?
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Old 09-27-2009, 04:14 PM  
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Originally Posted by PowerCum View Post
A dating backend is way more complex. The ones you can buy are unable to scale to many members, so you need either to pay for a custom dating backend (lots of money) or have the knowledge to build your own one (lots of knowledge and time).
Here, you should start from a custom solution as soon as you reach about 10k members, so the startup price is not cheap at all.
Good point. The blog I posted in the original post to this thread discussed the database hassles of running a huge dating site. Not for the fainthearted.
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