All those blogs die because people don't bother to use WP Super Cache or the equivalent. Just for comparison, in 1998/99 I ran an mp3 search engine that handle

All those blogs die because people don't bother to use WP Super Cache or the equivalent. Just for comparison, in 1998/99 I ran an mp3 search engine that handled 200k daily queries at the peak. It was a Pentium with 128MB of memory. The search server was written in C, and it used an inverted index. The system load rarely went over 1.