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A bold claim for a blog that takes about 20 seconds to load.

This post has gone to the top of hacker news, so I think we should give him some slack

Looks like an amazing article, and so much to learn on what happens under the hood

HN generates ~20k page views over the course of a day with a peak of 2k/h: https://harrisonbroadbent.com/blog/hacker-news-traffic-spike.... At ~1MB per page load - not sure how accurate this is, I don't think it fully loaded - this static blogpost requires 0.55MB/s to meet demand. An original raspberry pi B (10mpbs ethernet) on the average french mobile internet connection (8mbps) provides double that.

I don't mean this as a slight to anyone, I just want to point out the HN "hug of death" can be trivially handled by a single cheap VPS without even breaking a sweat.

Totally agree, my server should definitely be able to handle the load. But this is a WordPress install, which is definitely doing too much work for what it is when just serving the pages. I plan to improve on this!

I believe that when it's a .fr, they call it nonchalance...

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