On: Building a 10BASE5 “Thick Ethernet” Network (2012)

[Macha]

> I wonder at the server architecture that can't handle HN traffic

Stock out of the box Wordpress on a low end VPS.

Any web server serving a static site, or WordPress with any of the big caching plugins should be fine

[kalleboo → Macha]

Yeah I once ran a Apache + WordPress blog running on a low-end AWS instance that hit not just Hacker News but also some big tech blogs at the same time, and it handled it fine just by having the WPSuperCache plugin installed and having all the static assets passed though CloudFront, nothing else fancy.