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Re:The database servers powering Let's Encrypt by wpietri on Thursday January 21, 2021 @05:25PM (#25865315)
Totally. 2 TB of RAM! In one box!

I think the first servers I had in production had 8 MB RAM. No more, certainly. Soon we'll be at 1000x that. My dad's first "server" was 3 orders of magnitude smaller, with 8 KB of RAM (hand-wound wire core memory). In that time, the US population hasn't even doubled.

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Re:The database servers powering Let's Encrypt by buzer on Thursday January 21, 2021 @07:28PM (#25866690)
https://yourdatafitsinram.net/

The listed servers are from few years ago so I guess there might be some bigger ones available these days.

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Re:The database servers powering Let's Encrypt by jagger27 on Thursday January 21, 2021 @05:44PM (#25865583)
More like 1,000,000x
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Re:The database servers powering Let's Encrypt by wpietri on Thursday January 21, 2021 @09:24PM (#25867509)
Oops! Yes, that's correct.
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Re:The database servers powering Let's Encrypt by midasuni on Thursday January 21, 2021 @07:38PM (#25866747)
My phone in my pocket has 1,000 times 8MB of ram. A million of your first serves in one box. In about 30 years?
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