An hour or two worth of work with varnish and you pretty much solve that problem. In 2016, that's the sort of thing I'd expect anyone competent rolling their ow

An hour or two worth of work with varnish and you pretty much solve that problem. In 2016, that's the sort of thing I'd expect anyone competent rolling their own platform to be doing. If you're not using some off the shelf blogging platform (like blogger, wordpress.com, medium, tumblr, or infinity others that are free and not too bad) then that means you are trying to prove a point in hosting your own thing. If you can't do that very well, that perhaps proves a different point than you intended. I run varnish even on silly joke websites I set up with no traffic and literal kilobits worth of only static content, it's just so easy to do and it's a good habit to have.