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by yanis_t 35 days ago
My posts* got to the first spot on hackernews couple of times. Never once it broke down like that. And why would it, it's just a bunch of html and css files served through (free) vercel (don't think it matters). I wonder what do people run their blogs these days, so they fail under the pressure so easily.

* https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=yanist.com
2 comments
timpera 35 days ago
It's WordPress, which is a great CMS but can quickly crumble under load when using cheap hosting.
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andix 35 days ago
With an external cache/CDN it should work perfectly fine.

There are also some caching plugins for wordpress, but most of them still hit the database on every request.

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yanis_t 35 days ago
So I assume it's because it's not statically build, but requires a DB connection all the time?
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timpera 35 days ago
Yes, with the recent waves of AI scrapers I have noticed on my own WordPress websites that the DB seems to the weak point when under load. Cache plugins can help a lot with this.
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VladVladikoff 35 days ago
Cheap shared hosting will throttle sites which get too much traffic.
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