The $5 instance can easily handle 50k connections, depending on what you're doing. I scaled to 40k clients and 50 megabytes a second sustained on a $10 Linode (

The $5 instance can easily handle 50k connections, depending on what you're doing. I scaled to 40k clients and 50 megabytes a second sustained on a $10 Linode (but that was nchan, not this). That was after my first 50 paying customers...