MangaDex infrastructure overview
I don&#x27;t understand. Why is 2k requests&#x2F;sec supposed to be massive?<p>Try this yourself: write a simple web server in Go, host it on a cheap VPS provider, let&#x27;s say at the option that costs $20&#x2F;mo. Your website will be able to handle more than 1k&#x2F;s requests with hardly any resource usage.<p>ok, let&#x27;s assume you&#x27;re doing some complicated things.<p>So what? You can scale vertically, upgrade to the $120&#x2F;mo server. Your website now should be able to comfortably handle 5k req&#x2F;s<p>Looking at the website itself, mangadex.org, it doesn&#x27;t even host the manga itself. The whole website is just an index that links to manga on external websites. All you are doing is storing metadata and displaying it as a webpage. The easiest problem on the web.<p>So, I really don&#x27;t understand the premise behind the whole post.<p>The problem statement is:<p>&gt; In practice, we currently see peaks of above 2000 requests every single second during prime time.<p>This is great in terms of success as a website, but it&#x27;s underwhelming in terms of describing a technical problem.