Craig's List's Infrastructure

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"In 1995, he was sending his friends in San Francisco e-mail messages with lists of local events. With their encouragement, this became Craig's List, which has now expanded to Boston, Seattle, New York and 19 other regions. Nine years later, Craig's List now gets 500 million page views and 4 million unique visitors every month. The staff numbers 14, and the site runs on about 30 Linux boxes."

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