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That’s a massive jump to make when he is probably being beaten to hell by HN right now. That’s not a reasonable chain of expectation. Reevaluate your logic.

• jedberg 6y ago
  In 2021, HN doesn't make that much traffic. Any decently built website should be able to handle it, if the owner cares about the user experience.
  • imwillofficial 6y ago
    "HN doesn't make that much traffic" Cite your sources, that claim sounds made up. Your inference that if somebody doesn't use a CDN or have acceptable load times for you, that they don't care about user experience, and so their opinion on self hosting is not worth listening to is absurd.
    • jedberg 6y ago
      Well here is a link about someone who made the front page in January: https://nicklafferty.com/blog/what-happens-when-you-re-on-the-front-page-of-hacker-news/ https://nicklafferty.com/blog/what-happens-when-you-re-on-th... They said they got 18,000 hits in one day. That's a tiny amount of traffic for any decent static website (which this one that we are talking about is). Even assuming they got all that traffic in one hour, that's only 5 requests per second.
      • DoctorOW 6y ago
        Poking around the source code I see the time on the cache is after this comment so I feel the issue is more likely cache configuration wasn't prepared for frontpage of HN. Anecdotally, I'm not experiencing any performance issues anymore.