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by blibble 4302 days ago
scaling? databases?

this is serving up some static content, and a string lookup in a hash table.

a single cheap vps with 768mb of ram should be able to handle thousands of requests/second without issue.

(50 chars email average + 2 * 4 byte pointers) * 10M entries => 512mb ram

(and with some noddy splitting by email domain you could probably quarter that)