Website traffic can be vary heavily during some parts of the day depending on demographics. It's good practice, unless you know that traffic profile, to inflate

Website traffic can be vary heavily during some parts of the day depending on demographics. It's good practice, unless you know that traffic profile, to inflate by 2-3x your average page views per second over any time period larger than an hour. In addition to this, one pageview may produce many requests. Both of these need to be profiled before you can estimate reasonably how much traffic a webserver can handle given it's current resources. There are some good benchmarking tools that will load the entire page, including all it's resources, and produce a more accurate load measure in terms of r/s. As a side note, those $5 vultr instances can handle a surprising amount of static requests per second using nginx.