its an interesting academic investigation. In theory, you could do 10M pv/day with a relatively small archive. I bet some recently launched sites that take off quickly (PandoDaily for example) probably do decent traffic levels with a pretty small number of posts, that would probably fit into a small cache.
But that's all theoretical. There's no way someone running a site with that kind of traffic should be running on shared resources without an infrastructure. When that $15 server needs a reboot, the site is offline, and that would be a significant amount of lost traffic.
Capacity, speed, redundancy and cost of downtime... You really shouldn't run on this kind of architecture.
But that's all theoretical. There's no way someone running a site with that kind of traffic should be running on shared resources without an infrastructure. When that $15 server needs a reboot, the site is offline, and that would be a significant amount of lost traffic.
Capacity, speed, redundancy and cost of downtime... You really shouldn't run on this kind of architecture.