Omegle, which once had 27M daily active users, ran on a single Linode 2880 server + Python backend.

No DB, no global CDN, no massive team.

Just one cracked engineer and a simple tech stack.

Let that sink in... https://t.co/yFDSHQL1yv

Steven Tey

https://x.com/steventey/status/1916552091688140829?s=46&t=o9UI-y8yfzBv86nCKtagDQ

Omegle runs on just one server: a Linode 2880. It used to be on a 720, which was very close to sufficient.  No database at the moment, but if it never needs one, I'll most likely use PostgreSQL. Python and Twisted, yeah.  I'm not planning to add anything like file/picture-sending for a lot of reasons -- bandwidth, legal issues, the potential for trolling, etc.