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0 pointsSvenskunganka9y ago0 comments

That's 1 request per minute, you could slap that into a raspberry pi on a 3G connection, and do the same for your next 400 apps that has 1 request per minute.

People seem to underestimate just how powerful modern machines really are. And I don't get why people seem to think it's hard to deploy simple web applications. Just write a 4-line shell script that rsync's, runs whatever DB migrations you may have and restarts the thing.

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forgottenacc569y ago

40k visitors per month isn't one per minute. It's anywhere from one per minute to 40k per second. Division of requests by time is the worst possible mistake in calculating load.

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joeblau9y ago

Well technically it's:

  622482 / 43800
  = 14.2119178082 requests per minute

Here are my requests over the last month - http://jmp.sh/9EAUVrv

I definitely understand that modern machines are powerful, but I used to STIG RHEL 4 and RHEL 5 boxes for 4 years as my primary day job. I've done everything from create creating kickstart files to manually locking down a whole Linux instances to creating RPM files. At this point in my career I just don't care about the extra cycles I get by using <insert your infrastructure tech>.

If my product needed the extra performance, trust me I would switch.

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