[Kenji]

Everyone is so smug here, wow. If you have a little web presence with 5 visits per day, of which 3 are bots, you don't cache, you don't use AWS or any of the big services, you just spin up a tiny Linux machine with a LAMP stack and that's it.

[Mouse47]

Reads more like good-natured ribbing imo. We've all been there.

[yoz-y]

Is there a good (preferably free) service to load test ones own website? I imagine that something like this is quite hard to test for a beginner and I admit I have never tried to do it on my site either.

[siliconwrath]

I've had a good experience using https://loader.io/

[mixedCase]

No, for a blog you don't.

You make a static website. HTML, CSS, maybe some JavaScript.

[yoz-y]

I suppose the millions of wordpress blogs disagree with that statement. Some people like to format their content in a wysiwyg environment.

[mixedCase]

> I suppose the millions of wordpress blogs disagree with that statement

And crumble under the weight of real traffic.

> Some people like to format their content in a wysiwyg environment.

Those exist for HTML and are just fine for writing a blog, assuming markdown is too hard. We're talking about a programmer's blog here, however.