Comment by chlorion

My cgit instance gets hammered so hard that my CPU use is raised to 100% and the entire server grinds to a halt. I have to set a cgroups CPUQuota limit with systemd to make the server usable again.

Also, they hit so hard that nginx returns 502s and times out for real user half of the time, and when the site does load it takes a few seconds to load.

This is all on a high performance single core vultr server, not the cheapest vps but not the fastest, but should be plenty fast enough.