My total hits on / of when PDFy hit the frontpage (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8034431 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8034431), and remained ther

My total hits on / of when PDFy hit the frontpage (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8034431 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8034431), and remained there for some 24 hours, iirc: root@debian:/var/log/lighttpd/pdf.cryto.net# cat access.log | grep "GET / " | grep "news.ycombinator.com" | wc -l 19387 That said, the Hacker News post led to a bunch of other places writing about it a day or so later, the most notable of which was Gigazine: root@debian:/var/log/lighttpd/pdf.cryto.net# cat access.log | grep "GET / " | grep "gigazine.net" | wc -l 544 But most of their traffic came from the document viewer they embedded in their article: root@debian:/var/log/lighttpd/pdf.cryto.net# cat access.log | grep "GET /d/C8gHjDOxTLdunq1a/embed" | grep "gigazine.net" | wc -l 41609 And this is what the bandwidth usage looked like during those few days: root@debian:/var/log/lighttpd/pdf.cryto.net# vnstat -d eth0 / daily day rx | tx | total | avg. rate ------------------------+-------------+-------------+--------------- [...] 07/13/14 767.19 MiB | 949.01 MiB | 1.68 GiB | 162.72 kbit/s 07/14/14 1.27 GiB | 9.13 GiB | 10.40 GiB | 1.01 Mbit/s 07/15/14 7.05 GiB | 106.73 GiB | 113.79 GiB | 11.05 Mbit/s 07/16/14 2.89 GiB | 48.73 GiB | 51.62 GiB | 5.01 Mbit/s 07/17/14 2.22 GiB | 24.21 GiB | 26.43 GiB | 2.57 Mbit/s 07/18/14 1.23 GiB | 11.90 GiB | 13.13 GiB | 1.27 Mbit/s 07/19/14 1.31 GiB | 11.88 GiB | 13.19 GiB | 1.28 Mbit/s 07/20/14 1.38 GiB | 7.73 GiB | 9.11 GiB | 884.50 kbit/s 07/21/14 1.44 GiB | 9.55 GiB | 10.99 GiB | 1.07 Mbit/s [...] If I recall correctly, my HTTPd was hit with some 50-100 reqs/sec total (for static + dynamic). It didn't really have any issues with it, despite running on a cheap VPS with 512MB of RAM, on a non-optimal stack (lighttpd + PHP + MySQL). I've noticed a significant increase of recurring traffic since (it still hovers at about 5-15GB of traffic a day as opposed to the 2GB before, and there's a steady stream of uploads). As long as you don't run something obscenely heavy like WordPress or Joomla, and you don't use Apache, you'll probably be fine.