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ComputerGuru on April 9, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Downloading a file regularly - how hard can it be?

CPU and bandwidth are entirely different issues. Sure, nginx can handle the processing. But do you have the piping to match?

A run of the mill dedicated server has a 100mbit uplink. Do the math. (Hint: it's easy to saturate in no time).

lxm on April 9, 2012 [–]

Has anybody tried https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/service for this?

oconnor0 on April 9, 2012 | [–]

This is just downloading a single static text file so there's nothing to optimize.

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