We have put in a number of performance improvements, yes. The nice thing about those is that they also make the site snappier when it's not under load. Right now we have just over a million items in our CMS, plus our publicly available mailing list archives, which are much larger, even if they're less frequently referenced.

Yeah we can just rewrite the web servers in Rust ;)

That'll be great until.. they rewrite the scrapers in Rust! Then we're really hosed!

1,000,000 / 3,600 = ~278