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Yeah, it’s no big deal for static content. My little Raspberry Pi had no trouble with it even though it uses a SQLite DB.

https://joeldare.com/private-analtyics-and-my-raspberry-pi-4...

Granted, it was a Sunday.

HN volume is pretty weak tbh. Web devs are just getting worse.

Pretty easy problem to solve too - just scale up the static asset Kubernetes cluster‽

As a rule of thumb, if the post get N upvotes, you get 100N+50 visits. YYMV.

The post has now 76 points in 40 minutes, so an average of (76*100+50)/40/60 ~= 3.2 that is close to your 4.9. But the peak may be much higher, like the 20/s reported by other users.

Refreshing every second and mentally averaging, I'm getting closer to 15-20 requests per second. But yes, only a badly designed static site should be crashing under that load (unless it's on a residential connection, perhaps it's ISP rate limiting?)

I'm seeing about 20 per second by doing the same method. Still nothing crazy, but it probably needs a bit more time at the top of HN

Probably more to do with the fact that people are mashing F5 to see the difference.