Indeed. I've been on the HN front page a couple of times with Jekyll generated sites (http://os-blog.com http://os-blog.com is one). Hosted on an Amazon micro i

Indeed. I've been on the HN front page a couple of times with Jekyll generated sites (http://os-blog.com http://os-blog.com is one). Hosted on an Amazon micro instance (613 mb) and served by nginx, none of my sites have broken a sweat under the increased traffic. HN traffic isn't really that much. I was watching the stats under the new Google Analytics realtime mode and the site was averaging about 3 - 6 requests per second.