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7th December 2006 - Link Blog

The Architecture of Mailinator. 3 million e-mails a day on a 2GHz server with 1GB of RAM.

Posted 7th December 2006 at 3:11 pm

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This is a link post by Simon Willison, posted on 7th December 2006.

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