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by sjs382 3331 days ago
When it was announced here, https://artpacks.org peaked at about 100 requests per second. It's a site that really triggers nostalgia and encourages a lot of browsing.

The site held up very well on a $5 DigitalOcean box, due to the fact that it mostly served small, static files (only routing and archive-unzipping happen server-side). All templates are created on the front-end.

Edit: Just checked and I was wrong—it's a $10/mo DO VPS.

Edit 2: Oops, I forgot to mention that an app launched the same day, which used the same API endpoints as the main site.