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lclarkmichalek on Jan 4, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: StackExchange System Architecture

A lot of spare capacity on the CPU != a lot of spare capacity. They are most likely much more constrained wrt RAM and disk ops

ayrx on Jan 4, 2015 [–]

I very much doubt that's the case for their web servers. Note how they only opted for 48GB on their web servers vs the much larger numbers on their DB servers?

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