Akamai's peak load so far is 12 million requests per second

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17 points·benologist··9 comments

Just to really put that into perspective ... the other day someone posted a real time guage of doubleclick's activity with DART and their staggering 300k ads per second. In that submission someone else said the unofficial number they've heard is another mil per second for AdSense .... so in total Google's ad interests may be doing a mere 10% of the traffic Akamai peaked at.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1247358

http://qos.doubleclick.net/

I expect google could easily beat that with a few services combined.

That'd be cheating... besides Google advertising is pretty much synonymous with the entire internet which makes it a good metric for comparison (although the numbers I suggested are questionable).

Well Akami is, for the most part, static content. So it's "cheating" anyway :) to compare the two.

lol fair enough, what should we compare it to then?

I don't know. It would be interesting to see some numbers for Amazon's S3 service perhaps - a lot of static content gets hosted on there.

Man... I wish all I had to do was push static content. Must be nice.

Because Akamai doesn't do application acceleration, live streams, PCI compliant card payments etc.

I am glad the all important Library of Congress unit of measurement is still alive. I wonder though, do people using this unit of measurement take into account the growth of the LoC. I mean since the LoC should include most published materials in the US, it should be growing at a pretty brisk rate.

Thus, the LoC, like the dollar is one of those units of measurement that change their meaning over time.

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