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This is really nice. How have you been hosting this? How well is fossil able to handle the traffic?

I've read so many articles about the advantages of static site generators and serverless implementations for blogs so that they are able to handle traffic and the insane amount of tooling around each of those concepts. It's so great to see a well crafted piece of software being able to take care of all that so seamlessly.

I'm a big fan of fossil personally and use it for all my projects as well as for all the projects in our organization.

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A lot of us Fossil users host it on $5 VPSes. It's written in C atop SQLite, so the network is almost always the bottleneck, not the server-side processing speed.

sqlite.org and all of the other repos D. Richard Hipp maintains (Fossil, Pikchr, the separate SQLite docs repo, the forums for Fossil and SQLite...) all run on a $40/month VPS. The page generation time is calculated and displayed at the bottom of non-static pages like this one: https://sqlite.org/src/

This is running on a server with super slow single core performance and slow I/O (Sun Fire T1000 with full disk encryption, giving ~ 2 MB/s for the disk), and yet it feels fast and I've never encountered any performance issues. As long as your repo is not as gigantic as https://pkgsrc.fossil.netbsd.org, you'll be fine, no matter what slow hardware you throw at it.

>Sun Fire T1000

Oh YESS!!! Can i ask what OS you use on it?

BTW CoolThread ;)