this reminds me of stackoverflow's vertical scaling with a fail over server.<p>drastically simplifies scaling when you are dealing with only one machine with huge amount of RAM and maximum cores.<p>I think the most you can get now is 192x2 cores and double digit TB of RAM<p>but more economical is proably 128x2 cores with single digit TB of RAM<p>its pretty insane how much traffic you can throw at a single machine like this espeically if you use optimized languages like Go or Rust to handle traffic.<p>there's still use for distributed computing but 99.8% of websites do not really need it.