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barsxl on Sept 27, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Wordpress.com serves 70k requests/second using Ngi...

WordPress.com currently has 12 load balancers per data center. They are HA and used for different subsets of traffic.

vhf on Sept 27, 2012 [–]

Okay, so we can now do the "math" :

70 000 / (4 * 12 * 12) = 121.52 request per CPU

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