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I'm sympathetic to their trouble but we're talking about serving a 330KB text file (150KB compressed), surely this isn't an insurmountable technical hurdle to o

I'm sympathetic to their trouble but we're talking about serving a 330KB text file (150KB compressed), surely this isn't an insurmountable technical hurdle to overcome? A 1000mbps dedicated server could serve it 70 MILLIONS times per day. Considering that most wouldn't be served (E-tags and whatnot), it can probably sustain a billion requests a day. What am I missing?

ameshkov 4y ago
You're missing three orders of magnitude.
ajsfoux234 4y ago
> The overall traffic quickly snowballed from a couple of terabytes per day to 10-20 times that amount. A 1000Mbps server could only serve 10.8TB, and that's not even accounting for overhead/daily usage patterns/etc
edf13 4y ago
It’s not really the serving that’s the issue - it’s the amount of bandwidth used… in the case of serving simple content (like txt) bandwidth is always going to be the expensive element
celsoazevedo 4y ago
The last copy of the .txt file saved by the WayBackMachine is 1.4MB: https://web.archive.org/web/20220901000327if_/https://easylist.to/easylist/easylist.txt https://web.archive.org/web/20220901000327if_/https://easyli... If you're getting a 330KB file, maybe the server issues are causing the download to fail?
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