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Indeed. I serve 200k visitors per minute static stuff on 4 eur vps with free cloudflare in front. Somehow I'm skeptical the systems theses flight trackers use
by Dma54rhs 4y ago
Indeed. I serve 200k visitors per minute static stuff on 4 eur vps with free cloudflare in front.
Somehow I'm skeptical the systems theses flight trackers use are that simple. Caching gets you only so far.
- kragen 4y agoI agree you'd probably need more than a 4-euro VPS. Indeed, I said in my comment that my 8-core laptop wouldn't be enough; you'd need 2-5 of them, unless you were running more efficient web server software than that hack I wrote one weekend in under 1000 lines of code. (And you couldn't use it anyway; it only supports serving stuff from the filesystem, not Comet.) Clearly the systems they use aren't that simple or they wouldn't have crashed under such a light load.