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Re:The best programmers I know by mr90210 on Wednesday April 09, 2025 @05:34AM (#43630389)
Traffic. Huge loads of it.
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Re:The best programmers I know by vanschelven on Wednesday April 09, 2025 @05:49AM (#43630461)
I'm not sure what "huge loads" means in this context though.

Remember when nginx was written in 2002 to solve the C10K problem?

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Re:The best programmers I know by PeterStuer on Wednesday April 09, 2025 @05:53AM (#43630481)
How would your static text only blog generate "huge loads" on a CDN?
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Re:The best programmers I know by ahofmann on Wednesday April 09, 2025 @06:33AM (#43630659)
What do you mean? What is huge to you? For me a static blog on a small vps would start to crumble at around 30 to 150 requests per second. This number is broad because the are a lot of moving parts even in this scope. This results in 2.5 million to almost 13 million page views a day. To reach numbers like that you need to get reeeeaally popular. With some planning a static website can be served billions of times a day before saturating the network stack.

So what are you talking about?

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