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[-] gmhafiz@programming.dev 58 points 10 months ago

1.2 million page views per month

1,200,000 / 30 days / 24 hours / 60 minutes / 60 seconds is 0.46 requests per second.

That is crazy low and is nothing to shout about. I notice people like to this in months to inflate the number to looks bigger. But calculating it down to RPS puts it to a perspective.

So why not create a website out of really, really old technology?

PHP 8.0 is no longer supported so I hope they update the "really, really old technology" to at least PHP 8.1 today.

[-] TCB13@lemmy.world 36 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Either way that VPS will cost 10-20$ depending on CPU form a good provider. You can't get that cheap with a bunch of AWS services for that number of requests.

Also, if they were using an hyped tech stack (nodejs or wtv) they wouldn't be able to handle the request spikes like they do. 0.46 requests per second means nothing because I'm sure they've hours of full inactivity and others serving 10 requests / second that would totally obliterate 2GB of ram if done on nodejs and a Mysql DB.

[-] myersguy@lemmy.simpl.website 8 points 10 months ago

$10-20 is what that VPS costs at a cloud provider. You could also dockerize and use a container service like GCP Cloud Run combined with cloud storage within that budget.

I'm not a big node guy, but I also kind of doubt nodejs would fail to handle 10RPS on 2gb of memory. I guess it all depends on what the requests are doing.

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