Mailinator handled up to 300 million daily emails on a single server
Paul Tyma · 703: The "Accidental" $10k/mo Side Project · Jun 27, 2017 · at 18:30
Paul Tyma, creator of Mailinator, details the infrastructure efficiency and server architecture behind Mailinator to Nathan Latka.
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“You know, we ran until last November on a single server for 13 years, even when we got three hundred million emails in one day.”
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