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https://www.gitignore.io runs on Heroku and it gets 40k+ visitors a month on a free Dyno. I use Heroku because I don't want an IAAS solution, I want a PAAS solution. If I wasn't using Heroku, I would probably find another PAAS, before switching to Docker (even though I do love Docker).

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That's 1 request per minute, you could slap that into a raspberry pi on a 3G connection, and do the same for your next 400 apps that has 1 request per minute.

People seem to underestimate just how powerful modern machines really are. And I don't get why people seem to think it's hard to deploy simple web applications. Just write a 4-line shell script that rsync's, runs whatever DB migrations you may have and restarts the thing.

40k visitors per month isn't one per minute. It's anywhere from one per minute to 40k per second. Division of requests by time is the worst possible mistake in calculating load.

Plus visitors != requests.

I have 200k visitors per month generating 8m page views and about 50m hits on the servers (with CDNs taking another few hundred million hits).

These all peak during the UK weekdays and wind down at nights and weekends.

Divisions over time aren't going to work, but neither is translating visitors into requests, especially as it's only the page views that have a beyond trivial computation cost.

Yeah, I just checked Cloudlfare and here are the requests

  Total Requests
  Last Month
  622,482

While you overall point is correct, it's still likely not going to be a lot. It's highly unlikely that it's 40k per second.

Thank you for the correction, but that was not the point I was trying to make. I was referring to his statement:

> [...] before switching to Docker (even though I do love Docker).

This seems like a very drastic solution to problems he does not yet have. I've been responsible for similar thoughts before, but shortly after realized just how damn stupid I was.

Well technically it's:

  622482 / 43800
  = 14.2119178082 requests per minute

Here are my requests over the last month - http://jmp.sh/9EAUVrv

I definitely understand that modern machines are powerful, but I used to STIG RHEL 4 and RHEL 5 boxes for 4 years as my primary day job. I've done everything from create creating kickstart files to manually locking down a whole Linux instances to creating RPM files. At this point in my career I just don't care about the extra cycles I get by using <insert your infrastructure tech>.

If my product needed the extra performance, trust me I would switch.

Thanks for providing that - I just notices that your shell instructions don't include completion. I use the following in zsh: https://gist.github.com/lorenzhs/ad6c009f5748d333b73376e07ae... With that, I can do "gi <tab>" to get a list of all possibilities.

I'm literally in the process of switching to zshell over the next few weeks. Since it's more than a 1-liner, could I just add that to the Advanced CLI instructions[1] section and credit you?

[1] - https://github.com/joeblau/gitignore.io/wiki/Advanced-Comman...

I didn't come up with that, but I don't remember where I found it. So don't credit me for it :-)

Turns out I copied it from oh-my-zsh: https://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/blob/master/plugin... - I edited your wiki page accordingly.

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