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What's wrong with web hosts nowadays? a few 100 users and everything dies.

Cached: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Ahttp...

Wordpress with no caching plugin on a $5-a-month droplet, that's what. It's a pleasant enough platform to use, but if you don't cache content and you make the HN frontpage, you're gonna have a bad time.

If you are going to use a out of the box like wordpress why use a VPS instead of a hosting provider? Purely just to store your own data?

Probably. You can also use a VPS for more things than just Wordpress, and shared web hosting tends to be kind of a crapshoot in any case; if you're up to doing sysadmin work, you really are better off with a VPS, not least because someone else's screwup is a lot less likely to impact your site.

Any experience how many users you get from the front page? I guess there are a lot more clicks than comments, so it could've been 10k-100k?

Should of course still be no problem for any server that serves cached content, but somehow that number of requests brings down a fair amount of frontpage posts..

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