> I've been HN'd before on a very small VPS but since my blog is now all static content it doesn't even notice... even when it was making 4 or 5 DB reads per page it didn't notice.

And even then you can have a default Cloudflare setup that will just cache most of the stuff.

I once had two articles hit the top spot on HN. Meh https://x.com/dmitriid/status/1944765925162471619

:)