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by ntoshev 6295 days ago
Thanks for the suggestions, I like them and will probably implement some variation.

I hope to be able to run it off a minimal VPS account as I am doing now. The architecture is very slim (no disk access, no interprocess communication) but uses unproven libs. Still loads fast for me, though.
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jonknee 6294 days ago
CPU may not be your bottleneck... Mailinator is handling up to 2 million emails an hour off a single server. Bandwidth though is an issue, 3TB a month. You pay for all those connections that spammers open.

http://mailinator.blogspot.com/2008/11/so-our-core-duo-serve...

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ntoshev 6294 days ago
Yes, I expect bandwidth to be the bottleneck. But it can be pretty cheap: serveraxis for example has unlimited bandwidth at 10mbps starting from $40 a month.
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