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The amount of traffic a website can handle is a function of cost not experience.
by gmiller123456 3y ago
The amount of traffic a website can handle is a function of cost not experience.
- paxys 3y agoThe cost to host a blob of text on the internet is ~0. Not being able to serve a handful of HN requests is 100% about effort and experience.
- schnebbau 3y agoLol no.
- catchnear4321 3y agoattempting to reduce X to “just a function of cost” will almost always “work” - if one assumes themselves experienced enough to know how to spend hypothetical dollars. the amount of traffic a website can handle is impacted by both. with insufficient experience, website won’t scale, money won’t be spent.
- ghaff 3y agoThere are a bunch of tradeoffs--cost, cost predictability, control, redundancy, flexibility, etc. Money isn't a magic wand as you say and, honestly, I'm not sure how much extra I would pay in general on the off-chance that a blog post might go viral every 10 years--if that is indeed the tradeoff.
- ZephyrBlu 3y agoDon't understand this at all. If you have a static site (Which a blog should be), CDNs will allow you to handle practically unlimited traffic for free. Even without a CDN you can host the static files in a bucket for practically free. Heck even serverless platforms usually give you 1M function calls for free each month. Cost is not the limiting factor.
- miyuru 3y agoThe blog is using cloudflare and it is very easy to setup caching rules to optimize the site. Sadly I have been noticing non optimized sites at lot more now.
- DrFell 3y agoSo he's cheap. I actually ICANN Lookup'ed his domain and it's registered with NAMECHEAP, so like, he even buys services that have cheap in the name.
- navjack27 3y agoIt's definitely a function of expertise. You could get a free host that could totally handle the hug of death. You could know how to deploy a static website more efficiently.