500 page views / second is, again, not that big. Basic servers are capable of handling hundred of the housands of those if you optimize your db and use a low l

500 page views / second is, again, not that big. Basic servers are capable of handling hundred of the housands of those if you optimize your db and use a low level language. We used python and an orm and we handled 1000 r/s on peak hours daily. And we are talking user accounts, comments, votes, upload, transcoding, video streaming... Todays computers are mind blowingly fast.