I've had several blogs trend very well. I built the site with Jekyll and run a single EC2 instance and never saw double digit load averages. I also ran a Face

I've had several blogs trend very well. I built the site with Jekyll and run a single EC2 instance and never saw double digit load averages. I also ran a Facebook advertising campaign for this site[2] which is sitting on S3 with Cloudfront in front. I've load tested that to over 2,000 connections per second, which I expect would exceed the most popular blogs. If I was worried about bandwidth costs, I would use a $10 Cloudflare plan. Every one of these "hug of death" discussions ends up tracing back to some bloated Wordpress theme. I continue to be shocked at the way it still occurs. [0] https://lolware.net/2017/07/04/amp-bloat.html https://lolware.net/2017/07/04/amp-bloat.html [1] https://lolware.net/2016/11/17/requesting_bank_login.html https://lolware.net/2016/11/17/requesting_bank_login.html [2] https://getcryptolocker.com https://getcryptolocker.com