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How many req/s before you fell over?

• dom96 6y ago
  I often wonder what kind of stack websites that fall over under HN traffic have. From my perspective HN doesn't actually bring that much traffic, so I find it curious which software is so fragile to fall over when getting HN front page traffic.
  • derwiki 6y ago
    Before you have that need it seems like premature optimization. If I had a blog that was getting a handful of views/day, I probably wouldn't bother with CDN/scalability until it became an issue. Or use something like Medium (which I do).
  • mattbillenstein 6y ago
    Yeah, I've always thought blogs that didn't render to static pages were just sorta silly - for just a few hits a day, it's very simple, and if you get a flood of traffic, even a small vps could keep up.