This is about 1/100th the traffic I load tested it to handle on a $5 Digital Ocean droplet (which I later upgraded to $10 due to TypeScript compilation using too much memory a different project).
Also, I completely forgot to set up any caching or any rate limiting on "articles" which are a new kind of thing on my site. Of course, it could easily be taken down with a DDOS.
But in the big scheme of things, this validates my belief that most people (including me) spend way too much time worrying about scalability in early stage projects!
It's also interesting to see how much traffic being on the front of HN sends. So far it hasn't broken 200 requests in a minute (https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ECJVktXUEAE9kVN?format=jpg&name=...)
This is about 1/100th the traffic I load tested it to handle on a $5 Digital Ocean droplet (which I later upgraded to $10 due to TypeScript compilation using too much memory a different project).
Also, I completely forgot to set up any caching or any rate limiting on "articles" which are a new kind of thing on my site. Of course, it could easily be taken down with a DDOS.
But in the big scheme of things, this validates my belief that most people (including me) spend way too much time worrying about scalability in early stage projects!