[jdimov10]

There's no good excuse for ANY website or platform these days to not be able to handle this amount of traffic with absolute minimal effort. In fact, handling 10x more should be trivial (and cheap).

[6DM]

Well if you're ultra cheap like me, you'll have to think deeply about scaling up your $5 instance lol

There are a lot of factors that go into site performance. Knowing your site can handle what other people have seen is a good start.

[parametrek]

Or you can design it to be light and fast from day 1. I had no trouble with the same level of traffic during a ShowHN on a $5 droplet.

[6DM]

You can design it to be light and fast, but you wouldn't know unless you test it right? Good to know that a cheap droplet can at least handle rendering the landing page though.