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I don't get it...

What's the surprise in having a cluster of 8 Pi serve 45k hits a month? That's 25 hits per hour, a single Pi would do it. Plus, Apache..?

That was my thought, too. I handled Hackaday using a PIII laptop, running Plan 9, over a residential cable link.

It's just not that challenging.

What's wrong with Apache for this?

My main concern in a setup like this would be memory consumption.

But it also just doesn't perform as well vs nginx, Lighty, Cherokee and others.