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StackOverflow's traffic numbers: * 16 million page views a month * 3 million unique visitors a month * 6 million visits a month ... which is very similar to wh
by sstrudeau 17y ago
StackOverflow's traffic numbers:
* 16 million page views a month
* 3 million unique visitors a month
* 6 million visits a month
... which is very similar to what my sites are doing (we do more than 20m page views w/ about the same # of uniques. Our content is very image heavy, though maybe a little more amenable to caching.
StackOverflow is running on 2 quad-core 8GB boxes and one 8-core 48GB db box. We're keeping up with VPS "slices" at SliceHost that add up to less than two full 4-core 16GB standard SliceHost boxes; and I expect to reduce capacity when I finish moving our image assets off to S3+CDN.
We have one full time developer/sysadmin/etc.: me. Are other similarly trafficked sites really using a lot more iron? I thought we were typical for this scale.