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		citricsquid on Feb 2, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Reddit (YC S05): 1 billion monthly pageviews They're beautiful, those numbers! Does that come from a single site, or something that embeds across multiple, also how do you power that amount of traffic?

Mikushi on Feb 2, 2011 [–]

One single website.

17 Webservers (Apache+PHP) 4 Cache servers (Memcache+Redis) 2 Databases Clusters (MySQL+Sphinx): 1 Master + 3 slaves, 1master + 7 slaves.

jedberg on Feb 3, 2011 | [–]

Very nice! That's a very small setup for so many pageviews. Quite impressive. Shoot me an email sometime, I'd love to talk shop. jedberg@reddit.com

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