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Re:Wordpress.com serves 70k requests/second using Nginx by mstank on Wednesday September 26, 2012 @10:36PM (#4579037)
Article didn't mention that they also use a CDN (EdgeCast). Helps make the 70k requests/second a lot more bearable.
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Re:Wordpress.com serves 70k requests/second using Nginx by barsxl on Wednesday September 26, 2012 @11:21PM (#4579134)
We serve about 150k req/sec from the CDN. That (obviously) isn't included in the 70k number from the article. The 70k is only what we are serving from the origin.
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