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For large sites, the private subnet is an actual network, with dozens or potentially hundreds of machines on it.

(Or was, back then. These days you can probably collapse all of that into a single medium-sized epyc or something.)



> (Or was, back then. These days you can probably collapse all of that into a single medium-sized epyc or something.)

I know where there are Sun V880s still running Oracle databases in a biggish cluster.

Their processor power, memory capacity, and storage capacity are exactly equivalent to a Raspberry Pi 4 with a biggish SD card.

We have come a long way.




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