My £4 a month server can handle 4.2M requests a day

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Post by mark_mcnally_je » Tue, Sep 07, 2021, 8:01 PM UTC

My £4 a month server can handle 4.2M requests a day
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Post by yupper32 » Tue, Sep 07, 2021, 8:58 PM UTC

Well the front page of HN won't get you 4.2M views today, but it's a pretty good real world test!

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Post by 5faulker » Tue, Sep 07, 2021, 8:58 PM UTC

That's a good spec for 4 bucks. With cloud hosting you might be able to push the cost down a bit with less CPU resource and memory.

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Post by ppeetteerr » Tue, Sep 07, 2021, 8:59 PM UTC

How did this make it to the number two spot on HackerNews?

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Post by ComputerGuru » Tue, Sep 07, 2021, 9:00 PM UTC

Absolutely. Even a terrible Wordpress instance can be beautifully (and transparently!) cached behind either nginx or varnish with ease, in which case you’re just serving static html pages and can probably handle any traffic you are likely to ever get.

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Post by johnklos » Tue, Sep 07, 2021, 9:00 PM UTC

This is a good, simple way to show how much can be done with modest resources.

Sometimes we see people fetishizing bigger and faster, then gatekeeping when people want to do the same work with modest means, whether it a four quid a month hosting service or a first generation Raspberry Pi. Not everyone has the money or desire for bigger & faster, and it's nice to see that here.

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Sep 07, 2021, 9:00 PM UTC

ppeetteerr wrote: post #4

How did this make it to the number two spot on HackerNews?

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Post by mark_mcnally_je » Tue, Sep 07, 2021, 9:01 PM UTC

5faulker wrote: post #3

That's a good spec for 4 bucks. With cloud hosting you might be able to push the cost down a bit with less CPU resource and memory.

I am cloud hosting using OVH cloud, I brought the server a couple of years ago now so they probably have some better specs for the price I am paying.

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Post by jonplackett » Tue, Sep 07, 2021, 9:02 PM UTC

#1 on HN and still up. That speaks for itself.

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Post by mark_mcnally_je » Tue, Sep 07, 2021, 9:02 PM UTC

yupper32 wrote: post #2

Well the front page of HN won't get you 4.2M views today, but it's a pretty good real world test!

It is! It's crashed my analytics but the website seems to be doing fine.