[kragen]

I agree you'd probably need more than a 4-euro VPS. Indeed, I said in my comment that my 8-core laptop wouldn't be enough; you'd need 2-5 of them, unless you were running more efficient web server software than that hack I wrote one weekend in under 1000 lines of code. (And you couldn't use it anyway; it only supports serving stuff from the filesystem, not Comet.)

Clearly the systems they use aren't that simple or they wouldn't have crashed under such a light load.