[fwxwi]

If it's just nginx serving files you can do this with a 386. I mean seriously what's so special about this? Maybe I'm missing something. Pretty sure nginx can serve thousands of static files with gzip+ssl per second using the crappiest ARM VPS available. Stick that in Online.net or OVH and you will pay no bandwidth fees.

Of course if your baseline is a wordpress site where every page weighs 3 MB and takes 2 seconds to generate when there's no server load, then this might seem like black magic to you

[jonny383]

You do realise you're reading hackernews, right? Where the majority of this generation likely grew into the industries using AWS / Heroku / "your other managed server as a service tm"