[Igglyboo]

Really i/o bandwith probably isn't the issue here, latency will be an issue for communications between mars and earth but as far as getting to the colony and sustaining it will be a lot of hard math problems and impressive calculations.

Oh and node can easily do millions of connections and lighttpd beat the 10k problem a long time ago.

[jabberwock]

My comment was made in jest, the site was initially returning 500 status codes. To their credit they got it back up within half an hour.