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That's only true if you assume a even distribution. If you cluster them the scenario is a bit different (your conclusion might still hold anyway)

Even if all requests were clustered into one hour per day, it’s only 54 requests per second. Pretty sure a Pi would be up to the job.

Yes, HN hit my blog on a 3b+ and that was no issue.

Which blog out of curiosity and 3b requests in which period of time? Is your blog static? Thanks!

3b+ is a Raspberry Pi model.