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I believe that to be true for most cloud offerings these days. If you find the open source project that they are using internally, a cheap Linux VPS is all you
by fxtentacle 5y ago
I believe that to be true for most cloud offerings these days. If you find the open source project that they are using internally, a cheap Linux VPS is all you need to copy it.
Yes, it won't scale to a million visitors, but then again, your purse won't scale to a million cloud visitors either.
- phkahler 5y ago>> Yes, it won't scale to a million visitors His simple static page seems to be taking the load of making the front of HN.
- fxtentacle 5y agoThat's probably only 2k-3k unique visitors, though.
- withinboredom 5y agoPer minute.
- tick_tock_tick 5y agoYes? The whole point is it's barely any traffic for a static site.
- fxtentacle 5y ago3k unique visitors per 10 hours
- brimble 5y agoI think people sometimes forget that tons of high-traffic sites used to be served from what would, today, be laughably weak machines and very simple architectures (say, just a failover second machine, or LB between just two servers, or sometimes even just a single YOLO server). No, they didn't get the traffic of a modern Google, say, because not as many people were online, but they did receive as much traffic as an upper-mid-tier modern site, and served it with machines weaker than a lot of modern phones. Just serving HTML and small media files is something computers are very good at, if you get out of their way.
- phkahler 5y agoAnother factor 20 years ago was the Apache web server. Everyone used that software because it was available and seemed to do the job. Load balancing probably got developed 5-10 years earlier than it would have if Nginx had existed back then.