On: Stack Overflow Architecture Update - Now At 95 Mil...

[moe]

which fits your requirement for interesting-ness

Sorry, the threshold of interestingness for serving static assets is even higher. ;)

A single nginx on a moderate host will barely warm up before ~10k reqs/sec. The network tends to be the bottleneck here. Anyways, ~800/s should be doable from a $10 VPS.

[dillona → moe]

I don't think they're paying all this money for the fun of it

[moe → dillona]

Hm, I'm not sure I follow. What money do you mean?

[alextgordon → moe]

They have 10 web servers. If they could replace all that with a VPS or two, they would.

[moe → alextgordon]

According to the article only 3 are dedicated to StackOverflow which sounds about right to me.

[IDisposableHero → alextgordon]

The VPS figure was for serving static files. So, a lot of the stackoverflow content isn't static.