I think people underestimate how fast computers are now. You can easily withstand Hacker News with a small VPS as long as you have a sane architecture that isn’

I think people underestimate how fast computers are now. You can easily withstand Hacker News with a small VPS as long as you have a sane architecture that isn’t too database heavy. Yeah, if you launch Threads you need whatever it is Facebook does to scale. But for a regular read only site? You don’t need to spend very much at all.