How much traffic can a $6 server handle? I measured it: 9,737 requests a second

DEV Community·6 points·remdore·10 days ago·dev.to

A real app on the cheapest droplet money buys: 1,117,976 requests with zero errors, 9,737/s static and 18,557/s once nginx cached the dynamic route. The limits I hit were a config default and my own arithmetic, not the hardware.

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