How come sites like Google/Facebook/etc. don't get DDOS'd even though they receive so many requests?
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Something I don't understand: (Tens/hundreds of?) thousands of people simultaneously try to connect to a site like facebook.com or google.com. From what I understand, they must all necessarily connect to the same initial server (because DNS will return the same IP to many of them, and so all the re…
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Your understanding that they all connect to the same server is wrong, although the details of how you achieve those results are complex. http://highscalability.com/ has reference work on how some of the scalability solutions are put into play. They …
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