Divide that over 18 machines, too!<p>I end up doing this with customers. &quot;Well we need a solid hosting system. Our site gets 2 <i>million</i> visits a month!&quot; Me: You know, that&#x27;d run alright off my iPAQ. (Actually, with a caching frontend like CloudFlare, it really would.)<p>Edit: Not to be dissing on their post. I think it&#x27;s interesting and good that people post such articles. It&#x27;s just that the sense of scale is off. There was a big article here on some large company, I think it was bitly, and the totals came out pretty low. Especially for the amount of servers. Even Twitter was only peaking at a few KTweets&#x2F;s a bit ago (granted they do a lot of work per tweet but still).