> I host this blog on a single core 128MB VPS
No wonder the site is being hugged to death. 128MB is not a lot. Maybe it's worth to upgrade if you post to hacker news. Just a thought.
No wonder the site is being hugged to death. 128MB is not a lot. Maybe it's worth to upgrade if you post to hacker news. Just a thought.
How much memory do you think it actually takes to accept a TLS connection and copy files from disk to a socket?
https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Bullseye/Req...
* Thin clients with only 256 MiB RAM and 400 MHz are possible, though more RAM and faster processors are recommended.
* For workstations, diskless workstations and standalone systems, 1500 MHz and 1024 MiB RAM are the absolute minimum requirements. For running modern webbrowsers and LibreOffice at least 2048 MiB RAM is recommended.
https://www.debian.org/releases/bookworm/armel/ch03s04.en.ht...
128MB should be plenty. I used systems for years with much less. But in reality, Linux is much heavier these days.
Unless the author is using some very slim distribution or perhaps something more interesting, it’s a challenge to run an up to date HTTP server like Apache or nginx on 128MB alone, even though it shouldn’t.
Also, the HN homepage is pretty tame so long as you don't run WordPress. You don't get more than a few requests per second, so multiply that with the page size (images etc.) and you probably get a few megabits as bandwidth, no problem even for a Raspberry Pi 1 if the sdcard can read fast enough or the files are mapped to RAM by the kernel