[jonatron]

True, but in this case with SQLite, there's unlikely to be much of a difference because there isn't the spare time available when waiting for a separate database server. I don't know what providers are good for a $10/month instance these days.

[echoangle]

How are you spending any non-negligible time reading from SQLite at 12 requests per second though? That would mean you’re spending something like 50 ms per request on reading from SQLite.

[ErroneousBosh]

Most of the time you're hitting SQLite, you're just reading from it, and so it doesn't hold anything up.