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I think it got the HN kiss of death. We need a new page about how to avoid this. Basic scaling skills I tells ya.

It's a lot of the same people that refuse free CDNs.

Ever wonder why those CDNs are "free"?

No, I don't actually. It's part of their lock-in and market capture like any other large digital business. The only ones that don't do it, can't.

No, but I am now! Why?

Control.

And i thought it was profit.

You don’t even need a cdn. The cheapest vps can handle HN load serving static pages. The problem tends to come when it’s some inefficient dynamic page triggering db calls to load a blog post.

> The cheapest vps can handle HN load serving static pages.

Until it runs out of ram just from the tcp connections.

400-600 RPS should suffice given a default Debian install running Apache with a TLS cert, given 300MB of base OS and 1.7G of RAM on a 2GB vps. Being very generous here as many are 512MB... otherwise it takes far less.

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