On: DMCA takedown on GPL-copyrighted code

[conductor]

That's not true. A static site served by Nginx (or a non-static one but with proper cache implementation) can do miracles even on a relatively cheap VPS.

[__david__ → conductor]

Heck, my wordpress site (with cache plugin) survived the front page served over my home cable modem (5Mbps upstream)! And that is old-school Apache prefork…

[bennyg → __david__]

People just expect 10 Heroku dynos to handle the load when that's not even close to necessary haha.

[Danieru → __david__]

My nginx with uncached wordpress on digital ocean held up as well.

[classicpm → conductor]

You are totally right, but this is a low-traffic blog, i wasn't expecting anything above 2k daily visitors and supercache, for some strange reason, acted funny before not updating the pages correctly.

[brazzy → conductor]

I've had a static site hosted on the cheapest shared hosting plan I could find take a stint on the HN frontpage without any problems.