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A blog is nearly a read-only webapp, it's the easiest type of website to scale. If you can't avoid 502s with trafic HN can make, you should'nt do benchmarks ab
by Nikkau 14y ago
A blog is nearly a read-only webapp, it's the easiest type of website to scale.
If you can't avoid 502s with trafic HN can make, you should'nt do benchmarks about hosting matter.
- marcuskaz 14y agothe benchmark said the Pi can handle 500 requests/sec, which shows that benchmarks and real world are very different
- Groxx 14y agoWhile true, it generally means buying bigger hosting / moving to a new provider / some significantly-manual step. If they haven't done it before, it could be hours before it's completed, if they're even aware of it yet.
- antihero 14y agoNo, because a static content blog can be served directly from memory. You could probably handle HN traffic on anything.
- Groxx 14y ago"Can be" does not mean "is". Unless it is built to do so, why expect it to? You have no idea what they're running, nor on what kind of machine or bandwidth allotment, why are you making these huge assumptions and insulting people who don't meet them?
- antihero 14y agoWell if you have a blog about performance, you'd think their site was performant.
- Groxx 14y agoWhy? Maybe they optimized for their own performance (put words online) instead of (buying, configuring, and) over-building their server. What if they're not a sysadmin? What if they hate sysadmin work? Seriously, it's a wordpress site.