I treat my personal projects as practice, My blog has at a time had a peak of around 100k visits a day, its a static site served by nginx on a linode512 that h

I treat my personal projects as practice, My blog has at a time had a peak of around 100k visits a day, its a static site served by nginx on a linode512 that has various other personal project running on it, its never blinked. I recently put a forum live(coded from scratch, but not all by myself) that is hovering around 5k visits a day, this has had growing pains (currently on a linode 1024), but when debugging the performance issues I learned a hell of a lot, and its been stable since (touch wood). If I wasnt able to keep a blog / forum / various other side projects live without having continuous maintenance problems then I would be pretty worried seeing as that is my job.