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8M visits a month end up being 3 visits/second on average. Not bad, but also $320k for 3vps is awful.
by qmarchi 4y ago
8M visits a month end up being 3 visits/second on average.
Not bad, but also $320k for 3vps is awful.
- dqpb 4y ago> 3 visit/second This reminds me of an excellent book on queueing theory for software engineers: Performance Modeling and Design of Computer Systems: Queueing Theory In Action by Mor Harchol-Balter
- MuffinFlavored 4y agoLet's take this argument one step further. What do you think is the cheapest way you could serve 3 visits/second? Obviously a $5 VPS could do "Hello, world!" or some light JSON at 3 visits per second, right? What are they serving? Streaming video? Megabytes of scripts/styles/fonts/images? Ah, it's for Truth social. aka 1 visit is most likely not 1 request. It's most like... 10-15, with logic to generate a timeline, plus authorization checks, plus database, plus cache
- claudiulodro 4y agoThe cheapest way would likely be something like a WordPress.com or Tumblr site, where you can piggyback on someone's global-scale infrastructure. You could do that for like the $10/yr it costs to map a domain, but it's obviously somewhat restrictive.
- rad_gruchalski 4y agoCloudflare workers.
- fragmede 4y agoOh that explains it. Who cares how much it costs if you're not going to pay the bill? https://www.mediaite.com/trump/fox-reports-trumps-truth-social-faces-big-money-woes-owes-web-host-1-6-million-in-outstanding-payments/ https://www.mediaite.com/trump/fox-reports-trumps-truth-soci...
- toast0 4y agoMaybe they overbought, thinking they would have usage? Then, when they got only 8m visits in a month, they stopped paying on the contract.