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Ask HN: What are the minimum specs to avoid the hug of death?

2 points by thatnorthmonkey ↗ HN
Where are the true bottlenecks? Is it usually in the bandwidth? App? Hardware? DB?

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speedgoose
Your architecture. For example by generating static html documents stored in S3 and delivered through a CDN, you can handle tons of visits at almost no cost.

A WordPress server with many plug-ins without cache on a slow VM will cost more and will be overloaded very quickly.