Hug of death :(
Database queries and interpreted languages aren't an issue at all. You need to be majorly unprepared to not be able to handle HN load. What I think people might overlook is that there will be other news outlets and social media that link to their website also. So it's hard to pass a verdict, though someone mentioned it's WordPress in a sibling comment so... I'd put my money on that it's poorly optimised but we can't really know I guess
People write their sites in slow languages "because it's I/O bound anyway" and put content which could easily be static in a DB.
Then you’d almost certainly be overcomplicating things, but it shouldn’t be slow.
Anyone competent can put a static site up on CF pages or even a lame VPS and serve huge amounts of traffic just fine. That’s not what they do.
> The FLX1s from Furi Labs runs a fully optimized Linux system called FuriOS, packing a lightning fast user interface, 3 hardware switches for microphone, camera and modem/gps, and a privacy centric approach like no other.
"Error establishing a database connection"
So it only works fine if you don't care what a FLX1s is.