Here's a post I put up just a few weeks ago showing how a completely dynamically generated blog with zero caching or performance tuning handles the traffic from

Here's a post I put up just a few weeks ago showing how a completely dynamically generated blog with zero caching or performance tuning handles the traffic from ending up on the front page of HN, being served off the free tier of Fly.io: https://thraxil.org/users/anders/posts/2023/08/19/hn-traffic https://thraxil.org/users/anders/posts/2023/08/19/hn-traffic It's Phoenix in my case, but I've had a dynamic blog with Django for a long time and it's not massively different in terms of performance. I also do like static site generators, but more for being able to dump stuff into S3 and avoid some deployment complexity (but they introduce other complexity). The main point is really that Wordpress, with the default configuration is just off the charts terrible. Like, it had to have taken massive amounts of engineering to make something that performs so poorly. If you don't pile a million features into a product and overengineer the living daylights out of it, it's really not very hard to handle quite a bit of web traffic.