New ask Hacker News story: Can Nginx servers scale to the level of Google

Can Nginx servers scale to the level of Google
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Google uses millions of servers around the world to distribute their load in an even manner, and the servers are custom Google servers instead of standard ones like Apache or Nginx. Average Google load is around 40,000 queries per second, translating to 3.7 billion searches per day and 1.2 trillion queries per year. This of course also includes peak load moments like election results being announced somewhere or some game scores being updated. Is Nginx, which is open sourced and freely available, capable of handling such load (of course with right hardware wired to it)? Or is there something inherently lacking in Nginx or Apache or other servers that Google had to settle for a custom home-made server to handle its traffic? Can a series of Nginx servers distributed around the world at opportune places provide similar level of performance for a website of traffic at the level of Google?