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mkup on Oct 1, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Stack Exchange Architecture

the point is: traffic is 50x expensive compared to RAM

jodrellblank on Oct 1, 2011 [–]

I don't understand what you are saying.

The original comment is based on the assumption that less hardware would still easily support the same traffic level.

michaelcampbell on Oct 1, 2011 | [–]

But not the same burst-over-average traffic, nor failure tolerance.

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