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Re:Why Reddit was down for 6 hours by lsc on Friday March 18, 2011 @04:42AM (#2339797)
what kind of scale are you at? I mean, about how many 32GiB ram/8 core servers would you need if you were using real hardware?
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Re:Why Reddit was down for 6 hours by jedberg on Saturday March 19, 2011 @02:41PM (#2344339)
We have ~130 servers at Amazon right now. We could probably do it with 50-75 or less, depending on how big the boxes are.
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