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"despite having a bunch of fast drives in RAID 10 and 64 GB of RAM, our image server simply cannot keep up. "

Wait, so he only has a single image server?

It's not like a site that forgets it's contents in 2min or less needs more than that.

It's not really 2 minutes, it's far more than that (a thread I watched lasted >1 day), but a LOT of content drops off the site every second.