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Is there a good service to do this automatically (my site uses DigitalOcean and CloudFlare free), or even test how much load you can handle?

I tend not to realise when my site goes viral, as I'm based in Australia whereas my largest audience is in b the US (and I'm a bit of a Luddite!)

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https://loader.io is a nice tool for that

Legend, thanks!

Wow, really glad I ran this tool.

Looks like with some dead basic optimisations (free versions of WP Fastest Cache and Autoptimise), my Wordpress site can handle around 1500 requests per second on a $5 DigitalOcean VPS before it starts to slow down.

On the old site, running on a shared host with less optimisations it would crap out at less than 10!

Seems like I don't need to worry about this after all.

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