The stack this site is hosted on can burst to 8K HTTPS requests per second with keep alives enabled and roughly half of those values without keep alives. See Benchmarking Websites for details. If you are looking for a solid do it yourself hosting provider, I recommend you checkout Linode and use my referral link if you sign up which helps support this site.
- Hosted with Linode on a KVM Hypervisor
- Debian Linux Operating System
- Apache MPM event - a hybrid multi-process multi-threaded server
- Google PageSpeed Apache module backed by Memcached
- ModSecurity - web application firewall (WAF)
- Varnish Cache - a web application accelerator AKA a caching HTTP reverse proxy for Apache
- nginx - a provides HTTPS termination and passes requests to Varnish Cache
- Memcached memory object caching system used to store pagespeed objects
- Pelican - Static site generator