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Title is wildly inaccurate. From the site author: " Yeah it turned out to be a bit optimistic :) The most traffic we had at once was when we were featured on the front page of the BBC, and there were a few thousand people browsing. We had to scale up briefly but everything ran smooth."

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For context, the original title was something like "How can Ceasefire support 500k users with $1,000 per month?".

Scaling _from_ $1k per month when a few thousand users hit the page? Yeah, that's not the StackExchange kind of post I was hoping for.

edit: wow, @Monkyyy's reply in that thread is simply brutal (you can't link to comments, selecting text is wonky too)

@Monkyyy is the kind of user you fire.

And simultaneously the engineer you hire at the beginning of the project.

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