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Comment by stavros

1 day ago

> 1000TPS and 10K daily users

I absolutely agree with your point, but I want to point out, like other commenters here, that the numbers should be much larger. We think that, because 10k daily users is a big deal for a product, they're also a big deal for a small server, but they really aren't.

It's fantastic that our servers nowadays can easily handle multiple tens of thousands of daily users on $100/mo.

Users/TPS aren't the right metric in the first place. I have a webhook glue side project that I didn't even realize had ~8k daily users/~300tps until I set up Cloudflare analytics. As a go program doing trivial work, the load is dwarfed by the cpu/memory usage of all my seedbox related software (which has 1 user, not even every day).

  • > Users/TPS aren't the right metric in the first place.

    This was my initial point :) Don't focus on trying to achieve some metrics, focus on making sure to build the right thing.

> We think that, because 10k daily users is a big deal for a product, they're also a big deal for a small server, but they really aren't.

Yeah we seem to forget just how fast computers are now a days. Obviously varies with complexity of the app & what other tech you are using, but for simpler things 10k daily users could be handled by a reasonbly powerful desktop sitting under my desk without breaking a sweat.