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That's not true. A static site served by Nginx (or a non-static one but with proper cache implementation) can do miracles even on a relatively cheap VPS.

• __david__ 13y ago
  Heck, my wordpress site (with cache plugin) survived the front page served over my home cable modem (5Mbps upstream)! And that is old-school Apache prefork…
  • bennyg 13y ago
    People just expect 10 Heroku dynos to handle the load when that's not even close to necessary haha.
  • Danieru 13y ago
    My nginx with uncached wordpress on digital ocean held up as well.
• brazzy 13y ago
  I've had a static site hosted on the cheapest shared hosting plan I could find take a stint on the HN frontpage without any problems.
• classicpm 13y ago
  You are totally right, but this is a low-traffic blog, i wasn't expecting anything above 2k daily visitors and supercache, for some strange reason, acted funny before not updating the pages correctly.