your blog server sits idle 95% of the time. don't pay for capacity to handle hypothetical peak load if you were to go viral by hitting the frontpage of HN. if t

your blog server sits idle 95% of the time. don't pay for capacity to handle hypothetical peak load if you were to go viral by hitting the frontpage of HN. if that were to happen, just fail and let the punters read the blog from archive.org / google search cache