The site’s hosted on a machine in his house, and is served over a DSL connection.
He says Node and/or Pulsar are doing well enough (150 connections using ~50 MB of RAM and 40% CPU)- apparently he just doesn’t have enough bandwidth to get everything out to everyone.
Hosted my own blog on DSL for years, I know the issues. He just shouldn't try to serve up half a megabyte of javascript over that connection. The Javascript is required though, so I'm not sure you can't blame Pulsar.
> Powered by Pulsar
For various definitions of 'powered'.