Very true. It also makes a difference as to which resource is being pulled, whether it is cached, what transport is being requested (SSL, compression, etc). I

Very true. It also makes a difference as to which resource is being pulled, whether it is cached, what transport is being requested (SSL, compression, etc). I really suspect the website would fall long before it hits anything close to 4.2 million requests (which the author also seems to except). That all said - long live tiny web servers!