alt Hacker News> 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.
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bigstrat2003 • last Sunday at 5:52 AM
I realize that what constitutes "insane" is a subjective judgement. But, uh... I most certainly would call 56 Gbps insane. Which is not to say that hardware which handles it doesn't exist. It might not even be especially insane hardware. But that is a pretty insane data rate in my book.
OK, technically there might exist such server, I guess Netflix and friends are using those. But we are talking about a community supported, free service here. Hetzner servers are my only options, because of their unmetered bandwidth.