[Nikkau]

A blog is nearly a read-only webapp, it's the easiest type of website to scale.

If you can't avoid 502s with trafic HN can make, you should'nt do benchmarks about hosting matter.

[marcuskaz]

the benchmark said the Pi can handle 500 requests/sec, which shows that benchmarks and real world are very different

[Groxx]

While true, it generally means buying bigger hosting / moving to a new provider / some significantly-manual step. If they haven't done it before, it could be hours before it's completed, if they're even aware of it yet.

[antihero]

No, because a static content blog can be served directly from memory. You could probably handle HN traffic on anything.

[Groxx]

"Can be" does not mean "is". Unless it is built to do so, why expect it to? You have no idea what they're running, nor on what kind of machine or bandwidth allotment, why are you making these huge assumptions and insulting people who don't meet them?

[antihero]

Well if you have a blog about performance, you'd think their site was performant.

[Groxx]

Why? Maybe they optimized for their own performance (put words online) instead of (buying, configuring, and) over-building their server. What if they're not a sysadmin? What if they hate sysadmin work? Seriously, it's a wordpress site.