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We landed on the moon with computers no more powerful than a pocket calculator.

Really i/o bandwith probably isn't the issue here, latency will be an issue for communications between mars and earth but as far as getting to the colony and sustaining it will be a lot of hard math problems and impressive calculations.

Oh and node can easily do millions of connections and lighttpd beat the 10k problem a long time ago.

My comment was made in jest, the site was initially returning 500 status codes. To their credit they got it back up within half an hour.

Distribution and management of resources, it's still a problem we have here on Earth.