Another method, if you decide against a statically generated site, is microcaching [1] with nginx. Your backend only needs to render the page once each second a

Another method, if you decide against a statically generated site, is microcaching [1] with nginx. Your backend only needs to render the page once each second and subsequent requests see the cached version. You should be able to easily handle 2000 req/s using this method. [1] http://fennb.com/microcaching-speed-your-app-up-250x-with-no-n http://fennb.com/microcaching-speed-your-app-up-250x-with-no...