Akelos a good framework choice for a social network type site?

[-kinetic]

Would Akelos be a good framework choice for a social network type
site?

I'm looking for an easy RAD framework that is also scalable in the
long run on production servers. I've been looking at ruby on rails,
and even though development is straightforward, fast, and easy,
there's the famous Twitter scaling shortcomings that lead me to
research other options.

It seems like Akelos is just a RoR port. But other than it being PHP,
what could it offer over RoR in terms of scalability and such? I'm ok
with paying for a host that supports Ruby.

Thanks

[Kaste]

> It seems like Akelos is just a RoR port. But other than it being PHP,
> what could it offer over RoR in terms of scalability and such? I'm ok
> with paying for a host that supports Ruby.

I don't know what to anwer on this one. I mean it's PHP. It's been around
for years. It scales.

"In the long run" means you will have a team, you can rewrite the whole
framework to optimize things then.

[IMHO] It depends more on what you can do with PHP or rails. Can you write
clean code in PHP. Do you understand the rails-code (the framework-code,
in parts)? Can you fix or rewrite/enhance something when it really gets
ugly and nobody seems to have this same problem, so you _have_ to solve it
by yourself.

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