sdouglas

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  1. Surely Facebook's server code and databases are replicated around the world, partly for redundancy and partly for faster content delivery. So presumably a datacenter to burn down (or a big storm can hit the US) and…

  2. I ask the question purely out of interest, not specifically about tweeking HTTP and TCP/IP but also about the underlying hardware, much of which is decades old. If we could completely divorce the Internet from history,…