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by poincaredisk 640 days ago
>And a big, serious database server can handle insane number of rows and concurrent users. Stackoverflow famously runs on [1] a single database server (plus a second for failover, plus another pair for the rest of the stackexchange network).

[1] Or used to run, this factoid is from many years ago, at its peak popularity.