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What I've Learned So Far as a Programmer

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Re: What I've Learned So Far as a Programmer

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post #4

Always build scalable web presences.

I hope to once make the frontpage on HN. Not for the fame or anything, just to check how scalable my blog really is. :)

Do you know of any way of testing your website to see how many concurrent users it can handle?

Re: What I've Learned So Far as a Programmer

#26
post #17

Everyone is so smug here, wow. If you have a little web presence with 5 visits per day, of which 3 are bots, you don't cache, you don't use AWS or any of the big services, you just spin up a tiny Linux machine with a LAMP stack and that's it.

No, for a blog you don't.

You make a static website. HTML, CSS, maybe some JavaScript.

Re: What I've Learned So Far as a Programmer

#29
post #17

Everyone is so smug here, wow. If you have a little web presence with 5 visits per day, of which 3 are bots, you don't cache, you don't use AWS or any of the big services, you just spin up a tiny Linux machine with a LAMP stack and that's it.

Is there a good (preferably free) service to load test ones own website? I imagine that something like this is quite hard to test for a beginner and I admit I have never tried to do it on my site either.

Re: What I've Learned So Far as a Programmer

#30
post #17

Everyone is so smug here, wow. If you have a little web presence with 5 visits per day, of which 3 are bots, you don't cache, you don't use AWS or any of the big services, you just spin up a tiny Linux machine with a LAMP stack and that's it.

No, for a blog you don't. You make a static website. HTML, CSS, maybe some JavaScript.

I suppose the millions of wordpress blogs disagree with that statement. Some people like to format their content in a wysiwyg environment.
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