0 to 1M: Scaling My Side Project to 1M Requests a Day

I just did a simple benchmark on one of the websites I deployed. It runs on a $6/month VPS along with 5 other websites.

    ~# ab -n 1000 -c 50 'http://<url>.net/'
    ...
    Requests per second:    2333.10 [#/sec] (mean)

That's

139K req/minute

8.3M req/hour

201M req/day

This is just simple PHP7 / MySQL 5.7 / memcached.

1M req/day doesn't seem that exciting.

0 to 1M: Scaling My Side Project to 1M Requests a Day (re-cycledair.com)