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Re:Infrastructure at 99designs by jedberg on Friday February 03, 2012 @03:25AM (#3546337)
> Why is there a need for so many varnish servers?

Probably because a lot of their assets are static image files.

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Re:Infrastructure at 99designs by DanBlake on Friday February 03, 2012 @04:09AM (#3546425)
Ah, so its a filesize issue? ie- they have xxx TB of storage and they obviously need one cache/serving process per machine.

I was just curious why there was so many cache process's needed but this makes sense.

These guys might make good use of the open source backblaze specs- I know we are looking into this for some storage of video/image data : http://blog.backblaze.com/2011/07/20/petabytes-on-a-budget-v...

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