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I am on alexa 1m (50k even). I do not have a load balancer, I do not have multiple servers for redundancy. This isn't even a static site, most of our page views are the wiki, the server running all of this has 8 cores and 4 are constantly maxxed out by a non-website related process.

Most websites now and days are over engineered.

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Checked my old site's rank. ~250000. One VPS, €4/month. Mostly static, but a decent part is served with a not so light Perl CGI script (!). I'm sure I wouldn't get away with that in top 1k websites, but 1m?

> "I am on alexa 1m (50k even). I do not have a load balancer, I do not have multiple servers for redundancy. This isn't even a static site, most of our page views are the wiki, the server running all of this has 8 cores and 4 are constantly maxxed out by a non-website related process.

Most websites now and days are over engineered."

That's awesome! Mind sharing some more details? (hosting plan/CDN/etc). Or even the URL?

Rented dedicated server running a 9900k. Windows hypervisor runs vms. database vm, website vm, and 3 game server vms running on this machine. each game server vm is running 2 instances of the game server, but only 1 ever has high pop.

https://tgstation13.org

Most of our traffic goes to our wiki: we are the most active open source video game on github. Most ss13 servers run their own codebase, forked from ours, but will still frequently point their players to our wiki rather then set one up on their own.

A Cloudflare caching layer was added back in march when we got a 4x spike in web traffic from a youtuber talking about the game.

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