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		s1k3s on June 28, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Tell HN: I DDoSed myself using CloudFront and Lamb... While reading through these threads I always get a feeling that everyone's working at YouTube or stuff like that, and they need to serve millions of users per hour. Meanwhile I'm in my corner here with an old-school $20 VPS that does just fine for my 10k users.

oznog on June 28, 2022 [–]

In 2010 I served a peak a million users per hour with an $80 dedicated server managed at my pleasure with Plesk and my PHP framework.

I can respond up to 20k requests per second.

Scaling is for worldwide TOP 250 webs or webs designed according to the stupid contemporary fashions.

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