[dgrin91]

Do you really think a $30 hetzner host can sustain that level of traffic performantly? Don't get me wrong, I love hetzner, but I would be very surprised if the numbers work out there.

[Nextgrid]

Isn’t it just serving static content and the content fitting in RAM? If so your laptop can serve it just fine even.

[iOSThrowAway]

A laptop would have a hard time serve thousands of people hitting a single endpoint multiple times a day.

[thomasfromcdnjs]

If it's mostly static, just cache it at the http level e.g. cloudflare which I believe wouldn't even charge for 450m requests on the $20 plan at least

[schnebbau]

Lol yes? It's all reads. If it can all fit in ram, great. Otherwise an SSD will do fine too.

[eqvinox]

You could probably serve it from the quad-core ARM64 inside the SSD controller, if you were trying "for the lulz".

[gnfargbl]

I would use a $100/mo box with a much better CPU and more RAM, but I think the pinch point might be the 1Gbps unmetered networking that Hetzner provide.

They will sell you a 10Gbps uplink however, with (very reasonably priced) metered bandwidth.

[blibble]

yes

and if it doesn't spawn up another $30 instance and add another RR entry to the dns

serving static content scales horizontally perfectly

[mdrzn]

For sure, even cheaper if you cache effectively.

[ExpertAdvisor01]

No . Hetzner would terminate your server as you are not a profitable customer.

[LunaSea]

We handle 200x their request load on two Hetzner servers.

[jkukul]

A profitable customer? How would Hetzner know if you're profitable or not?

I've hosted side projects on Hetzner for years and have never experienced anything like that. Do you have any references of projects to which it happened?

[xyst]

I have heard of hetzner terminating customer relationships if too many legal complaints are filed against your VPSes.

But not because of being "not a profitable customer". Mind sharing some links here?