[crop_rotation]

I don't understand such comments. Obviously the people having trouble serving HN traffic have no clue what inetd is. Most of them might not even know about using varnish/nginx and that too is fine. It is good that internet is so accessible that you don't need to write shell script from inetd to express your opinions on your own domain and website. A random php running blog will be able to serve far less than 5M hits/day and that too is fine. Most people can't run curlftpfs too and it turned out to be fine

[j45]

It can be a little myopic becuase it takes effort to understand teh experience of someone who doesn't have the same skills (technical) as you.

On one hand this is high praise for strangers assuming the best about them that they could learn.

Only, the vast majority don't know this, and even if they could learn, they aren't able to devote the time over years and decades to make it easy to learn, and if they can, they have other priorities that makes sure they won't be able to, or they choose not to.

[pdimitar]

And I don't understand your comment. The author is obviously a techie. Netlify + Cloudflare cost peanuts (might end up less than $5 a month) and you would have a blog that can sustain all but a coordinated huge DDoS attack.

If you're talking about non-tech people then sure but that would be a hypothetical. The author obviously has the skills. He just fell into the trap "my blog is not popular enough so WP is fine". Which is a common bug in our brain's algorithms: we never act until too late after an incident. Oh well. That's Homo Sapiens for you.

[kragen]

Oh, I was using a shell script spawned from inetd as the lowest-tech, most primitive, worst-performance simple way of running a web server. A random PHP-running blog will easily handle tens of millions of hits a day unless you way overcomplicate it.

[j45]

Millions of hits a day doesn't seem to be the correct metric for an HN front page traffic spike.

Concurrent connections per second is likely much more relevant, and in that case, one can put the most basic proxy or cache in front of the webpage to help a great deal, if not Cloudflare.

[j45]

I can't seem to reply to the other quote.

Concurrent connections is the number of simultaneous connections a server can handle, something little wordpress sites not behind anything to help often get slammed with on the regular.