In 2012, I asked a question on Server Fault: How do servers handle thousands of connections per second when a regular home internet connection would be too slow for that? I had just set up Apache on my home IP and was genuinely curious about large-scale servers. This was the response I got : Hm, I hate to say it, but it’s not a very SMART question. It’s like asking, “I have a car, but when I want to transport a lot of people it’s too small. How do big companies do it?” — they don...
