| ▲ | lucb1e 4 days ago |
| > your ISP may have a problem with your set up (giving it's on the front page of HN and will be experiencing some traffic). The page is like 30KB + that 3 MB image. The avg ~two hits per second that you get from a HN top position iirc (this is fairly old data though) is 6MB/s for a few hours, say 6 hours, that's 130GB. Unless it's hosted via a wireless uplink (4g/satellite/..), I don't think there's an ISP in the world that cares about using 130GB extra during a random month. Even in Belgium I think the caps were around twice that ten years ago |
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| ▲ | trillic 3 days ago | parent | next [-] |
| cloudflare is caching the image: ```
accept-ranges: bytes
age: 5397
alt-svc: h3=":443"; ma=86400
cache-control: max-age=14400
cf-cache-status: HIT
content-length: 3013598
content-type: application/octet-stream
date: Sat, 06 Sep 2025 23:14:32 GMT
last-modified: Sat, 06 Sep 2025 21:44:35 GMT
server: cloudflare
vary: accept-encoding
```
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| ▲ | pdntspa 3 days ago | parent | prev [-] |
| wait, top billings on HN brings in 2 hits/sec of traffic? That is an unbelievably low number considering how many sites fall over under that pressure |
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| ▲ | lucb1e 3 days ago | parent | next [-] | | Exactly. I think this shows two things quite nicely: - Very few sites need to cope with more than a handful of hits per second. A regular DSL connection and desktop PC can host the vast majority of them; you don't need clouds if you don't want them. (Even under variable load: if you need 80% of the systems more than 40% of the time, scaling down is probably not worth the cloud premium) - If a site can't handle HN, that's a software limitation. Compare Wordpress' insanely slow page generation to simple blog software that generates pages in 5 milliseconds, or even to hosting the blog as static HTML files. I'd not be surprised if you can serve Wikipedia's page text from like one Raspberry Pi 5 per country. Not that you'd want to do that for reliability and redundancy reasons, plus you have the constant stream of edits to process and templates to (re-)render. Media and blob hosting is also a separate beast. Thankfully, most sites are not in the top ten world's most popular websites and you get away with a lot | | |
| ▲ | smt88 2 days ago | parent [-] | | WordPress is a static host for the vast majority of users. The generation time is irrelevant. Almost by default, it will just cache the rendered page and always serve from the cache. |
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| ▲ | troupo 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | At one point I had two pages in the top spot on HN: https://mastodon.nu/@dmitriid/114852056319245427 - 20k peak unique visitors - 162k peak requests - 56 GB peak data but most of that data was cached by Cloudflare | | |
| ▲ | lucb1e a day ago | parent | next [-] | | That peak is a 24-hour cumulative value if I'm seeing it right? | |
| ▲ | eterm 3 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | Do you have stats for the peak requests / second? | | |
| ▲ | troupo 3 days ago | parent [-] | | Sadly, no :( I'm currently on free cloudflare plan, and I don't think it shows rps. And it doesn't show stats more than 30 days back |
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| ▲ | Retr0id 3 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | Closer to 10 at peaks, but a lot of sites are just fragile. |
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