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I host my blog on github pages but I always have that niggling doubt about it.

My main issue with hosting the blog myself is the HN/Reddit hug of death. Does anyone have any experience around this? Do they use a CDN to take some of the weight off?

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If you statically host your blog it will not be a problem. One of my blog posts hit ~1000 points on Reddit and 500 on hacker news. This barely moved the needle on CPU and network utilization. I guess even a 5€ droplet will do

I host http://compellingsciencefiction.com statically from an S3 bucket. The thing scales remarkably well, never had a problem during spikes, and costs only a few cents per month.

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