[peterhunt]

Now do it without Cloudflare :)

[mmcnl]

I wrote a blog post that generated a lot of traffic on HackerNews last year when it briefly was on #1 here. My blog was (and still is) hosted on a 9-year old Dell Latitude E7250 with Intel Core i5-6300U processor. The server held up fine with ~350 concurrent readers at its peak. It was actually my fiber router that had trouble keeping up. But even though things got a bit slow, it held up fine, without Cloudflare or anything fancy.

[philip1209]

Perhaps some day.

My shorter-term goal is to switch my home internet to Starlink, so that all requests bounce off a satellite before landing at my desk.

[nofunsir]

Except Starlink uses CGNAT, which means you need some external SSHD port forwarding at least.

[dingi]

Been using a setup following this for quite a while. Nginx reverse proxy on a cheap VPS with a wireguard tunnel to home.

[Eikon]

Trivial, even for a high traffic website to be served from a fiber connection.

[alabastervlog]

Computers are stupid good at serving files over http.

I’ve served (much) greater-than-HN traffic from a machine probably weaker than that mini. A good bit of it dynamic. You just gotta let actual web servers (apache2 in that case) serve real files as much as possible, and use memory cache to keep db load under control.

I’m not even that good. Sites fall over largely because nobody even tried to make them efficient.

[philip1209]

If only my part of SF had fiber service. #1 city for tech, but I still have to rely on Comcast.