> Completely tangential rant: I know we're not supposed to entertain this on HN, I think this would make a good 'Ask HN' - let me know if you make one. > I ju

> Completely tangential rant: I know we're not supposed to entertain this on HN, I think this would make a good 'Ask HN' - let me know if you make one. > I just saw a tweet of a guy serving 200k connections on a $5 USD instance. I believe it because I've experienced it first hand several times. Serving static pages in 2021 is not a big deal, at all. You can do that on a $1/month instance if you are clever about it. It's all about static serving. Heavy load is something that can be detected and handled - if you're maxing out your CPU/network, switch to low-res/quality images, minimal CSS and do away with comments/recommendations. You could get that page down to 20kB and be mostly the same. > Can't they just solve this problem already? Whoever is in charge of their tech stack is hardly doing its job, this is unexcusable. A text+images news website should not be having this much trouble, it's embarrassing. That said, I'm sure there is something we do not understand - I would for sure like to speak with somebody from the site to understand it more.