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> your ISP may have a problem with your set up (giving it's on the front page of HN and will be experiencing some traffic). The page is like 30KB + that 3 MB i
by lucb1e 1y ago
> your ISP may have a problem with your set up (giving it's on the front page of HN and will be experiencing some traffic).
The page is like 30KB + that 3 MB image. The avg ~two hits per second that you get from a HN top position iirc (this is fairly old data though) is 6MB/s for a few hours, say 6 hours, that's 130GB. Unless it's hosted via a wireless uplink (4g/satellite/..), I don't think there's an ISP in the world that cares about using 130GB extra during a random month. Even in Belgium I think the caps were around twice that ten years ago
- trillic 1y agocloudflare is caching the image: ``` accept-ranges: bytes age: 5397 alt-svc: h3=":443"; ma=86400 cache-control: max-age=14400 cf-cache-status: HIT content-length: 3013598 content-type: application/octet-stream date: Sat, 06 Sep 2025 23:14:32 GMT last-modified: Sat, 06 Sep 2025 21:44:35 GMT server: cloudflare vary: accept-encoding ```
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- pdntspa 1y agowait, top billings on HN brings in 2 hits/sec of traffic? That is an unbelievably low number considering how many sites fall over under that pressure
- Retr0id 1y agoCloser to 10 at peaks, but a lot of sites are just fragile.
- lucb1e 1y agoExactly. I think this shows two things quite nicely: - Very few sites need to cope with more than a handful of hits per second. A regular DSL connection and desktop PC can host the vast majority of them; you don't need clouds if you don't want them. (Even under variable load: if you need 80% of the systems more than 40% of the time, scaling down is probably not worth the cloud premium) - If a site can't handle HN, that's a software limitation. Compare Wordpress' insanely slow page generation to simple blog software that generates pages in 5 milliseconds, or even to hosting the blog as static HTML files. I'd not be surprised if you can serve Wikipedia's page text from like one Raspberry Pi 5 per country. Not that you'd want to do that for reliability and redundancy reasons, plus you have the constant stream of edits to process and templates to (re-)render. Media and blob hosting is also a separate beast. Thankfully, most sites are not in the top ten world's most popular websites and you get away with a lot
- smt88 1y agoWordPress is a static host for the vast majority of users. The generation time is irrelevant. Almost by default, it will just cache the rendered page and always serve from the cache.
- troupo 1y agoAt one point I had two pages in the top spot on HN: https://mastodon.nu/@dmitriid/114852056319245427 https://mastodon.nu/@dmitriid/114852056319245427 - 20k peak unique visitors - 162k peak requests - 56 GB peak data but most of that data was cached by Cloudflare