Hacker News Reader

How do you do load-balancing there? Meaning, can 1 box of nginx/haproxy handle that many requests ?

Anycast will spread incoming requests out to N physical machines, then you can do your layer 3 load balancing, then you can do your SSL termination and HTTP load balancing.

We didn't use anycast, though. I suggested it to our CTO many times and it would have saved us over $5,000/mo in DNS costs, but it never got done.

Even if a single box would be capable to handle that many requests, you should never have just one box to be the main entry point to your server (failsafe).

I also suspect he refers to 300k distributed across multiple datacenters.

Yes, you are correct. The 300k was total across all datacenters. 85% of that was in the US, 10% in Europe, and 5% in Asia.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com