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I’m shocked by how many websites can’t handle a few requests a second

• thomascgalvin 4y ago
  I'm not. Plenty of people expect their traffic to be "a few friends", not "a few hundred thousand strangers", and they still use the first host that showed up in Google sixteen years ago. Those hosts cater to people who expect a few friends' worth of traffic, and have little incentive to optimize for the Hacker News Hug that is honestly unlikely to happen. Can you find an affordable host that could scale to big traffic? Sure. But that takes time to research, and they payoff might not be there for most people.
  • bitexploder 4y ago
    I am pretty sure my site would be ok. It’s just static HTML and pretty streamlined. A $5/month VPS. Maybe some day I will write a cool enough post I feel like sharing.
    • SketchySeaBeast 4y ago
      Well, the only real way to know is by sharing the link and finding out. No plan surviving first contact and all that.
      • bitexploder 4y ago
        I ran a load tester at it. It is just nginx and a static site generated with tesla, nothing remarkable. 522 Req/Sec and around 4 MB / Sec bandwidth consumed. 16K pages served in 32 seconds with zero errors. 122 MB total. At least, in its current form it would survive a pretty significant hug of death :) (stealthgoat.com if anyone is curious, I just started blogging again after many years of meaning to, currently just non-tech stuff.. kind of just my personal notes I felt like sharing with the world) :)