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How Standard Ebooks serves millions of requests per month with a 2GB VPS (alexcabal.com)

submitted 10 months ago by bugsmith to c/programming

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago (15 children)

Finally someone who know how to do things properly.

Modern PHP isn’t half bad, and it has at least two major benefit over some of its competitors: Each request is a totally independent request that rebuilds the world. There’s no shared state (unless you want there to be).

big benefit is that you’re not stuck with having to learn and maintain a huge bells-and-whistles 3rd-party framework in perpetuity. I think people really underestimate the burden of maintaining a 3rd-party framework even after development of the website is complete

Starting on a cloud provider cedes one’s independence because it often leads to vendor lock-in.

The big benefit of running a basic Linux box on our own VPS is that everything is just files on a generic, well-understood platform (...) a VPS is a low-cost, simple, and lock-in-free way to go. Very classic-web.

At the end of the day...

All of this goes to show that you don’t need a whole lot to build a performant, useful website, capable of serving millions of requests a month, on a tiny server that also handles other resource-intensive tasks.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (8 children)

Each request is a totally independent request that rebuilds the world. There’s no shared state (unless you want there to be).

I with there was a language with this model, but without the language itself being completely garbage.

[–] RonSijm 6 points 10 months ago

Isn't that the same as modern languages? For example in ASPCore / C#, you can just register all your services with a lifetime scoped to the request, and then there's no shared state.

If you want there to be a shared state, you'd just have to register your services with a higher lifetime scope, like with a singleton scope

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