The number of requests able to be served
Posted: Sat Jul 12, 2025 7:07 am
I don’t know the speed this can run, but it is probably in excess of 100k requests per second. (This paper seemed to put the number over 1 million per second.) A request is a sha256 hash, which, if recorded in binary, is 32 bytes. So 3.2MBytes/sec would be the incoming bandwidth rate, which is not a problem. Therefore:
Depend on the bandwidth of the machine, and it could depend on the file system. If a web object is 50KB compressed, and served compressed, then with 2Gbits/second, we could serve a maximum of 5,000 per second based on bandwidth. If each hard drive is about 200 seeks per second, and a retrieval is four seeks on average (this is an estimate), then buy sales lead with 36 hard drives, that would be 1,800 retrieves per second. If there were popular pages, these would stay in ram or an SSD, so it could be even quite faster. But assuming 1,800 per second, this would be about 700Mbits/sec which is not stretching the proposed machines. Therefore:
How many users would the serve? To make a guess, maybe we could use the use of mobile devices use of web servers. At least in my family, the web use is a small percentage of the total traffic, and even the sites that are used are unlikely to be decentralized websites (like YouTube). So if a user uses 1GByte per month on web traffic, and 5% of those are decentralized websites, so 50MB/month per user of decentralized websites could give an estimate. If the server can serve at 700Mbits/sec, then that is 226Terabytes/month. At at the 50MB usage that would be over 4 million users. Theref
Depend on the bandwidth of the machine, and it could depend on the file system. If a web object is 50KB compressed, and served compressed, then with 2Gbits/second, we could serve a maximum of 5,000 per second based on bandwidth. If each hard drive is about 200 seeks per second, and a retrieval is four seeks on average (this is an estimate), then buy sales lead with 36 hard drives, that would be 1,800 retrieves per second. If there were popular pages, these would stay in ram or an SSD, so it could be even quite faster. But assuming 1,800 per second, this would be about 700Mbits/sec which is not stretching the proposed machines. Therefore:
How many users would the serve? To make a guess, maybe we could use the use of mobile devices use of web servers. At least in my family, the web use is a small percentage of the total traffic, and even the sites that are used are unlikely to be decentralized websites (like YouTube). So if a user uses 1GByte per month on web traffic, and 5% of those are decentralized websites, so 50MB/month per user of decentralized websites could give an estimate. If the server can serve at 700Mbits/sec, then that is 226Terabytes/month. At at the 50MB usage that would be over 4 million users. Theref