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Plus they have a lot of spare capacity on the hardware. Even if traffic were to double they wouldn't need new servers to keep things running smoothly.
by ayrx 12y ago
Plus they have a lot of spare capacity on the hardware. Even if traffic were to double they wouldn't need new servers to keep things running smoothly.
- lclarkmichalek 12y agoA lot of spare capacity on the CPU != a lot of spare capacity. They are most likely much more constrained wrt RAM and disk ops
- ayrx 12y agoI very much doubt that's the case for their web servers. Note how they only opted for 48GB on their web servers vs the much larger numbers on their DB servers?