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Re:You don’t need all that complex/expensive/distracting inf... by mattmanser on Thursday March 11, 2021 @10:38AM (#26425138)
But today, 16 years of Moore's law later, you could now have gone way, way, way, way past that.

They probably could have done most of America on a single server.

For example, even in 2009 Stack Overflow was running off two dedicated servers:

https://stackoverflow.blog/2009/01/12/new-stack-overflow-ser...

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Re:You don’t need all that complex/expensive/distracting inf... by KptMarchewa on Thursday March 11, 2021 @06:48PM (#26430524)
Stack Overflow in 2009 is an example of something that's cacheable extremely well, several orders of magnitude than stuff like personalized walls for every user.
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