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by tinco 4636 days ago
Ofcourse, if you want your site to be up when it has 25 upvotes on hacker news, it's best not to worry if your web application is written in C++, Go or in Ruby (or sadly but likely, PHP), but that it doesn't actually have to spawn hundreds of processes and hundreds of connections and allocate hundreds of megs of ram to accomodate your visitors.

So, please just use nginx to host some static html files for your blog, and fetch your discussion boards asynchronously..

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So, please just use nginx to host some static html files for your blog

Wordpress + W3 Total Cache can handle a hundred HNs with ease. There is absolutely no reason to go to the past, and poorly configured blogs don't justify that Luddite argument.

Yep. Octopress really helps with that