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I think it got the HN kiss of death. We need a new page about how to avoid this. Basic scaling skills I tells ya.

• esseph 5d ago
  It's a lot of the same people that refuse free CDNs.
  • nullc 5d ago
    Ever wonder why those CDNs are "free"?
    • andai 5d ago
      No, but I am now! Why?
      • DANmode 5d ago
        Control.
        • Towaway69 5d ago
          And i thought it was profit.
    • esseph 5d ago
      No, I don't actually. It's part of their lock-in and market capture like any other large digital business. The only ones that don't do it, can't.
  • Gigachad 5d ago
    You don’t even need a cdn. The cheapest vps can handle HN load serving static pages. The problem tends to come when it’s some inefficient dynamic page triggering db calls to load a blog post.
    • esseph 5d ago
      > The cheapest vps can handle HN load serving static pages. Until it runs out of ram just from the tcp connections. 400-600 RPS should suffice given a default Debian install running Apache with a TLS cert, given 300MB of base OS and 1.7G of RAM on a 2GB vps. Being very generous here as many are 512MB... otherwise it takes far less.