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For contrast, I recently had a no 1. HN hit and my Pi4 never had a core beyond 20% Yes, it’s a static website. It’s amazing how little performance you actually
by louwrentius 2y ago
For contrast, I recently had a no 1. HN hit and my Pi4 never had a core beyond 20%
Yes, it’s a static website. It’s amazing how little performance you actually need to survive a HN avalanche
- ploxiln 2y agoIt's amazing how powerful hardware is in the past decade, and how masterly crafted and efficient some software is (linux, nginx, etc) ... while other software is so profoundly inefficient, that we forget.
- thraxil 2y agoYeah, I've had a few HN frontpages with sites running Django and recently Phoenix with essentially no caching or optimization running on a 256MB fly.io free tier instance with barely a noticable increase in load (just big spikes in the network/traffic graphs).