[jabberwock]

It seems like we have a long way to go when we're still struggling with servers that can handle a few hundred requests per second.

Edit: Drats, I spoke too soon. The server seems to up now.

[mychaelangelo]

We landed on the moon with computers no more powerful than a pocket calculator.

[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.

[loceng]

Distribution and management of resources, it's still a problem we have here on Earth.