alt Hacker NewsWe are talking about an insane amount of data here. It was 56 Gbit/s (or 56 x 1 Gbit servers 100% saturated!). This is not something a "caching server" could handle. We are talking on the order of CDN networks, like Cloudflare, to be able to handle this.
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> or 56 x 1 Gbit servers 100% saturated
Presumably a caching server would be 10GbE, 40GbE, or 100GbE
56Gbit/sec of pre-generated data is definitely something that you can handle from 1 or 2 decent servers, assuming each request doesn't generate a huge number of random disk reads or something
I'd be somewhat surprised if nginx couldn't saturate a 10Gbit link with an n150 serving static files, so I'd expect 6x $200 minipcs to handle it. I'd think the expensive part would be the hosting/connection.
> We are talking about an insane amount of data here. It was 56 Gbit/s. This is not something a "caching server" could handle.
You are not talking about an insane amount of data if it's 56 Gbit/s. Of course a caching server could handle that.
Source: Has written servers that saturated 40gig (with TLS) on an old quadcore.