> I think people underestimate how much a handful of properly specd servers can achieve.
Absolutely.
> Quick search
Even AWS (i.e. the very pricey one) has an x1e.2xlarge with 4.5 physical (9 hyperthreaded) Xenon E7 8880 v3 processors, 244GB DDR4, 240GB SSD, 25 Gbps network for $1200/month paid monthly or $700/month paid annually.
And that scales linearly 16x.
You've really got to be something amazing (maybe a ton of video?) to scale past what a single commodity box can handle.
Absolutely.
> Quick search
Even AWS (i.e. the very pricey one) has an x1e.2xlarge with 4.5 physical (9 hyperthreaded) Xenon E7 8880 v3 processors, 244GB DDR4, 240GB SSD, 25 Gbps network for $1200/month paid monthly or $700/month paid annually.
And that scales linearly 16x.
You've really got to be something amazing (maybe a ton of video?) to scale past what a single commodity box can handle.