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		8organicbits 3 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The value of hitting the HN front page For one popular project of mine that hit the front page I had a 2% sign-up rate. It was a free service that used GitHub for authentication, which likely helped. I had a Netlify landing page (CDN), and the web app was a Django app on a single DigitalOcean droplet. I didn't see any complaints of performance issues / resource usage stayed low.

dirkc 3 months ago [–]

That sounds like my preferred setup! I use a static site deployed to cloudfront backed by a Django app on Digital Ocean :)

It might not work for all applications, but it tends to hold up great against traffic spikes and the hosting costs stay in the low teens (USD)!

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