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by ben_w 310 days ago
If it's done right, "millions" of users is something you can serve on racks of machines specced from the late 00s with all the commensurate sysadmin tools.

It's just that "done right" means the web pages are actually crafted to be what they need, and there's none of the modern extras like 1850 ad tracking agencies all being copied in, nor an ad server injecting just about anything…