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Re:Did the Microsoft Stack Kill MySpace? by antidaily on Friday March 25, 2011 @02:55PM (#2369798)
Could anything "off-the-shelf" have managed that load?
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Re:Did the Microsoft Stack Kill MySpace? by Kafka on Friday March 25, 2011 @08:03PM (#2370876)
It depends on how many servers you are willing to run. When you have 500 million users, and a decent amount of them, accesses your site multiple times a day, CPU cycles per request starts to count.
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