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To be even fairer, I've served a shit ton of traffic on a small DigitalOcean droplet and never had issues because my stack is reasonable.
by 3pt14159 6y ago
To be even fairer, I've served a shit ton of traffic on a small DigitalOcean droplet and never had issues because my stack is reasonable.
- runawaybottle 6y agoWhat’s your stack, and how much traffic?
- gtufano 6y agoI survived without errors from being to HN front page with Nginx and a static site (made with Hugo, iirc) on a Linode 1GB (when the plan was still existing). No CDN whatsoever.
- phkahler 6y agoThat sounds reasonable to me. In the old days people used Apache because it was available and worked. But because the performance was shit they adopted other complex means of dealing with heavy loads. Nginx has dramatically improved the web server performance problem but a lot of old practices are still in place.
- devwastaken 6y agoTo be fairest you can serve pages on a potato and as long as it's cached by cloudflare no one will know.
- vmception 6y agoand yet, they didn't
- vangelis 6y agoIs there a CDN sitting between your small droplet and the world?
- newswasboring 6y agoBut... We do realize the skills required to make and evaluate a super computers is vastly different from web serving right? Sure some principals may be common due to the distributed network but the actual practical tools have nothing in common.