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		Wilya on March 13, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Posterous acquired by Twitter Well, to be honest... Quantcast actually gives 1 million pageviews a day (and not a month), which is, yes, 10/s (and 550 times less than Tumblr). Either Quantcast numbers are very off, either Posterous can indeed run on very few servers.

gizzlon on March 13, 2012 [–]

you have to expect it to peak a lot higher though.. The requests are probably not going to be distributed evenly over 24 hours..

(edit: but yeah, you only need 100 servers if you're running something with "enterprise" in the name ;)

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