How many req/s before you fell over?

I often wonder what kind of stack websites that fall over under HN traffic have.

From my perspective HN doesn't actually bring that much traffic, so I find it curious which software is so fragile to fall over when getting HN front page traffic.

Before you have that need it seems like premature optimization. If I had a blog that was getting a handful of views/day, I probably wouldn't bother with CDN/scalability until it became an issue. Or use something like Medium (which I do).

Yeah, I've always thought blogs that didn't render to static pages were just sorta silly - for just a few hits a day, it's very simple, and if you get a flood of traffic, even a small vps could keep up.

:-) Cloudflare is amazing, yes. Everyone should use it by default, I say.

As an individual or small business I agree with you. Their free tier is amazing? And they seem to be awesome people with only the best intentions.

I hope for more diversity, for many reasons. One of which is that they are a know man-in-the-middle, that can see the plan text of what appears to be secure communication to the user. It operates in the US, it can be compelled to, and to do it silently, into using their position to spy on people.

That said we use them at work and I use them personally. I'm not doing anything "risky" at all. But there are many cases in history where suddenly the government changes and now you are. And apparently black people are always doing something "risky" in the US.

Man, I really want to say we don't because of the implications of too centralised an internet, but there's no way it isn't a transitive dependency.

What the hell are you building that there has to be Cloudflare in the dependency tree at some point?

Well for our use case their caching infrastructure handles 63% of all our traffic and 70% of our bandwidth.

We'd have to basically quadruple our expenses without CF. Not to mention their available protections.

Any javascript CDN?

I'm sure there are more Node.js modules for that than you can count.

Until they go down too..

I vote for more diversity rather.

Stop embracing a single company. Everyone goes bad when they figured they're the monopoly.

Its hard for me to trust your products if you didn't even have a Cloudflare in front.

EDIT: I don't imply the product is bad, sorry

I imagine this is just for their blog, which is probably an afterthought.

That's correct, this was only our blog. We've only just recently begun an effort to publish more frequent and more interesting content. Although OP's point is fair.

I would trust it less.

The point is attention to details. Their blog went down in a matter of minutes.

Can you be sure their product will not?

That’s a statement