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heipeiyesterday at 4:08 PM1 replyview on HN

Yes, and I didn't mean to imply that a single VPS is all you needed. But I wanted to put things into perspective for the other posters who claimed that you couldn't possibly serve a site like this from a single machine, purely in terms of performance.


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direwolf20today at 1:24 AM

Some people don't realize how big machines get. A single ordinary server can have a 4x100Gbps connection and 256 physical CPU cores.