I don't know. Sure, maybe not on your barely-broadband DSL connection, but I'm pretty sure you can run most things on a average shared webhosting, even if you'r

I don't know. Sure, maybe not on your barely-broadband DSL connection, but I'm pretty sure you can run most things on a average shared webhosting, even if you're using WP. You just need to make sure that you have a working caching system in place. It's a gigantic difference even on an apache to just read & send a plain file and invoke PHP & run all the costly code. I don't believe HN should bring down any site that can essentially be cached as static HTML. Cloudflare will only help once your server has gone down with their "Always On" thingy, if you have that enabled. They don't cache HTML by default.