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Which "commodity server" could serve 2GB/s(16gbps) to public internet?

Pretty much anything. How about a Dell R340 with a dual-10G NIC and some SSDs? That's not commodity, that's cheap, a commodity server would be a dual-Xeon but that's overkill for serving 16gbps.

I think that is the problem with modern day's Web Dev. ( Sorry )

With Cloud and SaaS. They are so abstracted from Hardware that their knowledge on basic hardware and server, everything from CPU, Storage I/O and Network are close to zero.

At Netflix we’re doing close to 400Gbps on 1U commodity hardware, and pretty inexpensive.

And that is 400Gbps encrypted!

Side Note, aren't they 2U?

Yep! All TLS.

The production boxes are 2U, but it can be done in a 1U box.

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