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		Luyt on Aug 31, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: 9 million hits/day with 120 megs RAM Indeed! I read it as: 9 million hits/day with 120 gigs RAM Especially because of the scalability discussion around it. Only later in the article it dawned on me that he is using a cheap cloud instance.

harrisreynolds on Aug 31, 2011 [–]

LOL... me too... I was thinking... who couldn't hit 9M hits a day with 120 gigs of RAM... just load everything in memory and walk away! 120 MB is certainly more impressive.

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