How do I handle a million hits a minute?
davidw: That's a lot of traffic.  To handle that dynamically would probably cost you a pretty penny, even with really fast code (Apache/nginx/whatever modules in C, for instance).  What are you trying to do, exactly?My laptop can pump out a static page at about 4000 requests per second.  A million requests per minute is on the order of 16,000 requests per second, so you'd probably need multiple servers running really fast code.  Since you don't explain what you want to do with the data, it's hard to really say anything meaningful about how you want to handle it dynamically.Do you really need to start off handling that much traffic?