News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on What does it take to run a web app with 5K – 10K users?. Parent comment

Re:What does it take to run a web app with 5K – 10K users? by martin_ on Friday January 09, 2015 @11:27AM (#8862874)
StackExchange does 590million monthly views with around half that [1] and it includes redundancy. Do you think 24 could be overkill?

[1] http://stackexchange.com/performance#

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:What does it take to run a web app with 5K – 10K users? by jsherer on Friday January 09, 2015 @11:31AM (#8862899)
Not overkill as servers are not equal and different apps require different infrastructure. The bulk of my servers are small worker servers that go out and fetch feeds. Parallel downloads, high network throughput, low CPU/memory.
[ Parent | on HN ]