All these statistics don't seem that impressive to me. If you know your bottleneck is a relational database, use flat files or b-trees. 40-60 hits per second just doesn't seem that impressive. Neither does the amound of messages and stories per day. A single server should easily be able to handle this load, given the right software.
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All these statistics don't seem that impressive to me. If you know your bottleneck is a relational database, use flat files or b-trees. 40-60 hits per second just doesn't seem that impressive. Neither does the amound of messages and stories per day. A single server should easily be able to handle this load, given the right software.