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Thanks, I thought it would be easy to give a ballpark answer. I will keep an eye out for a discussion of scaling in regards to server needs. Actually, if anyon

by japhyr 15y ago

Thanks, I thought it would be easy to give a ballpark answer. I will keep an eye out for a discussion of scaling in regards to server needs. Actually, if anyone can point to such a discussion on HN I'd appreciate it. I couldn't easily find a relevant discussion, because the word "server" appears in so many threads.

retroafroman 15y ago
I just searched and maybe these conversations don't come up as often as I thought. On the other hand, it's also difficult to nail this sort of topic down because so many startups use Heroku, EngineYard, AWS, etc, so it's more like number of instances vs. number of servers. It seems Quora has a lot more insight. Examples here: http://www.quora.com/How-Many-Servers-Does-X-Have http://www.quora.com/How-Many-Servers-Does-X-Have