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Re:Wordpress.com serves 70k requests/second using Nginx by barsxl on Wednesday September 26, 2012 @11:43PM (#4579196)
WordPress.com currently has 12 load balancers per data center. They are HA and used for different subsets of traffic.
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Re:Wordpress.com serves 70k requests/second using Nginx by vhf on Thursday September 27, 2012 @03:31AM (#4579742)
Okay, so we can now do the "math" :

70 000 / (4 * 12 * 12) = 121.52 request per CPU

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