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by mci 870 days ago
How about a third unit, baud [1]? It looks no worse than hertz to me:

In telecommunication and electronics, baud (/bɔːd/; symbol: Bd) is a common unit of measurement of symbol rate, which is one of the components that determine the speed of communication over a data channel. It is the unit for symbol rate or modulation rate in symbols per second or pulses per second.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baud

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Baud is indeed symbols per second.

For a server, requests per seconds is the best SI unit you can do. In practice requests to a server are random so there is no periodicity and all periodic/frequency-related units do not apply.