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BryanB55 · 2011-10-26 19:27:12

That's pretty cool... I couldn't even imagine running a site that needs that many servers.

al_james | karma 799 | avg karma 2.26 · | 2011-03-18 19:05:49+00:00

Impressive they run that site off 6 front-end servers.

hackuser | karma 12788 | avg karma 2.89 · | 2014-11-24 05:08:24+00:00

On one hand that's amazing. On the other, if you're a sysadmin, could you remember the configurations of 33 servers? It's not hard to imagine.

MichaelGG | karma 17386 | avg karma 2.49 · | 2014-07-15 00:01:35+00:00

And 30 servers handling the frontend! Even if they peak at 10,000/sec, that's only a few hundred a server/sec. And another 370 servers to do other stuff.

foobarian | karma 8038 | avg karma 2.62 · | 2015-10-10 13:48:44+00:00

How in the world do they have hundreds of thousands of servers!

bluedino | karma 19194 | avg karma 2.78 · | 2014-11-11 14:12:55

I think a lot of people would be surprised at how many users and traffic you can really handle on a single server, or single pair of servers (web/DB).

sealeck | karma 2097 | avg karma 4.91 · | 2024-06-20 13:52:41

It's a lot more servers than a business would need?

imbriaco | karma 641 | avg karma 4.86 · | 2012-12-26 16:27:23

We have significantly more than 33 servers.

kriz9 | karma 110 | avg karma 3.79 · | 2023-04-18 13:45:11

It is nice to see someone writing that a single server is enough for a lot of websites/apps - if not most. Computers are insanely fast nowadays.

dub-io | karma 1 | avg karma 0.25 · | 2017-01-18 22:54:16+00:00

So you're running 20 sites? Nice!

gtirloni | karma 11092 | avg karma 2.86 · | 2018-12-13 05:58:44

How many servers are you using to host that?

vaksel | karma 27916 | avg karma 5.03 · | 2010-02-23 22:15:07+00:00

he has a lot of regulars. Gets something like 2,000-3,000 people on at the same time every night + it's an old site, so there are a ton of threads, I think something like 2 million at this point.

Infrastructure wise, I know that he has 4 web servers, 2 DB servers, and 1 image server...I'm not certain on specs, but I believe all of them are dual xeons.

But yeah it's pretty crazy, since it's a hobby, I'm sure he is getting things that he doesn't really need.

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doh | karma 3588 | avg karma 5.11 · | 2016-12-26 21:18:45+00:00

Number of servers

pitchups | karma 1069 | avg karma 4.1 · | 2013-02-16 06:05:23+00:00

Does a single server support this level of traffic? That is pretty impressive - it would be great to learn about the server's hardware and software configuration.

Barrin92 | karma 32717 | avg karma 5.08 · | 2021-01-18 00:25:53+00:00

Seems like a lot. I remember Stackoverflow posting their hardware setup in 2016 IIRC and it was just a handful of servers compared to this.

Aeolun | karma 23207 | avg karma 2.16 · | 2020-11-21 03:04:35+00:00

Our app ran on a set of 100 servers!

Sounds impressive until you hear that it’s serving maybe 300k requests a day.

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iDemonix | karma 1256 | avg karma 3.2 · | 2015-07-14 18:30:31+00:00

Wow, wasn't aware of how impressive that is.

Makes me blush a bit that we have 1000 - 1100 customer websites (which don't get many hits) spread across 6 CloudLinux servers and the performance is terrible... (not that I have anything to do with those servers!)

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kirubakaran | karma 12857 | avg karma 4.74 · | 2008-10-31 22:56:40+00:00

and 10,000+ servers!

deeepinit | karma 1 | avg karma 0.5 · | 2013-09-28 10:08:49

I'm curious on how many servers does it run :)

dgabriel | karma 1853 | avg karma 3.03 · | 2010-07-19 13:10:50+00:00

From their site:

"The company has experienced exceptional growth and currently hosts 5000+ dedicated servers and co-located machines, 5000+ Virtual Private Servers (VPS), and millions of websites."

If it's one guy running it from his apartment, that's gotta be one amazing apartment.

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