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    11 months ago

    1.2 million page views per month

    1,200,000 / 30 days / 24 hours / 60 minutes / 60 seconds is 0.46 requests per second.

    That is crazy low and is nothing to shout about. I notice people like to this in months to inflate the number to looks bigger. But calculating it down to RPS puts it to a perspective.

    So why not create a website out of really, really old technology?

    PHP 8.0 is no longer supported so I hope they update the “really, really old technology” to at least PHP 8.1 today.

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        $10-20 is what that VPS costs at a cloud provider. You could also dockerize and use a container service like GCP Cloud Run combined with cloud storage within that budget.

        I’m not a big node guy, but I also kind of doubt nodejs would fail to handle 10RPS on 2gb of memory. I guess it all depends on what the requests are doing.

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        10-20$ ? I think it is way cheaper. I doubt they need a good CPU, some vcores will do.


        edit:

        Here is an 8GB 6vcore ARM VPS from a reputable German server host for 7€

        https://www.netcup.de/bestellen/produkt.php?produkt=3564

        Here is a 2GB 2vcore x86 for 3.25€

        https://www.netcup.de/bestellen/produkt.php?produkt=2948

        Not to mention - they have regular deals, where you can get them for a permanent 50% off (during black friday and winter sales) I have been paying 17€ per year for the 2GB version.

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            11 months ago

            The netcup vps I have has a 100% uptime during the past 5 years. But no heavy use ofc, just wireguard

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            I’ve been using netcup for a decade. They’re very reliable and high quality. (Management/Admin interface, functionality, help wiki. Never had reliability issues.)

            I’ve used other providers before. I’m very satisfied with netcup.

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        Indeed. They say they’ve been repeatedly featured on the front page of HN and the site didn’t fall over, I’ve seen many examples that did.

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      11 months ago

      PHP 8.0 is no longer supported so I hope they update the “really, really old technology” to at least PHP 8.1 today.

      Most likely. This blog was written in February 2022; support for PHP 8.0 was only dropped in November 2023.