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		mstank on Sept 27, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Wordpress.com serves 70k requests/second using Ngi... Article didn't mention that they also use a CDN (EdgeCast). Helps make the 70k requests/second a lot more bearable.

barsxl on Sept 27, 2012 [–]

We serve about 150k req/sec from the CDN. That (obviously) isn't included in the 70k number from the article. The 70k is only what we are serving from the origin.

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