Just wondering if you can share your stack and what kind of traffic did you get (in terms of requests/second)? Always curious as to how much traffic HN really brings and why some sites stay up and others die.
- Time on front page: 15 min
- Views in first 15 min: ~5000
- Views in first 60 min: ~7000
- Views in first 600 min: ~11,000
- Views over the next 5 days: ~5000
My stack was just nginx serving static files, on a 1/1 VM that also hosts half a dozen other services (XMPP, Gitea, Matrix, Mumble etc.).
It is my belief that everyone who encounters the HN hug of death is doing something wrong.
Some time later I had migrated to blogofile and nginx and made it to HN again, the server barely noticed.
Why anyone hosts small blogs on self-hosted VPNs is beyond me - all sorts of problems including security maintenance and peaky load. You can go one further with caching, but that’s yet another moving part that’s not necessary for a simple site.