100k+ page views a month for $5 with a self-hosted static site

Re:100k+ page views a month for $5 with a self-hosted static... by fwxwi on Saturday November 23, 2019 @07:20PM (#21617495)

If it's just nginx serving files you can do this with a 386. I mean seriously what's so special about this? Maybe I'm missing something. Pretty sure nginx can serve thousands of static files with gzip+ssl per second using the crappiest ARM VPS available. Stick that in Online.net or OVH and you will pay no bandwidth fees.

Of course if your baseline is a wordpress site where every page weighs 3 MB and takes 2 seconds to generate when there's no server load, then this might seem like black magic to you

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Re:100k+ page views a month for $5 with a self-hosted static... by jonny383 on Sunday November 24, 2019 @12:37AM (#21618615)

You do realise you're reading hackernews, right? Where the majority of this generation likely grew into the industries using AWS / Heroku / "your other managed server as a service tm"

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