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How bad is the HN hug of death btw? My laptop can serve 200k QPS per core. I can't imagine HN is that much more intensive? Are 1vCPU VMs just that much worse?

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Yes, they are much worse than bon-fide actual single cores on most recently purchased laptops. But also, the HN hug of death mostly happens with tiny non-static sites that are sloppily hosted. If you're serving static assets it's hard to "hug of death" a Casio watch.

The thing that gets saturated first for most at-home or cheap-VPS hosting is the low-throughput network uplink.

Can you serve 200GB of an average 1mb large HTML page per second too, per core?

No, definitely not.

Your laptop can serve 200k qps per core?

To be fair, most modern computers can, but yes.

Holy crap what kind of laptop are you running?

M3 at work, Acer Swift 3 at home. Both are comparable in that regard. You can do 200k QPS of actual work (a little protobuf parsing, a little old-school ML, handling the networking, a little HTTP1.1 parsing, ...), more if you just want vanity metrics, just by wrapping something like uSockets [0] and not doing anything to explicitly pessimize the system.

You can do better with a hand-crafted solution, but most projects don't need anything fancier.

[0] https://github.com/uNetworking/uSockets

Context is a website, so HTTPS requests per second would be the relevant metric.

I'm also quoting HTTPS requests per second.

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