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A hit every two seconds is 30 * (86400 / 2) = 1296000 hits per month.

150000 hits per month is an average of a hit every 86400 * 30 / 150000 = 17.28 seconds.

Yes, that's nothing. With a hit every 17 seconds, there is no performance optimization to be done. Therefore I don't understand the concern about performance in the parent comment by 'sideproject'.

Sure, there could be peak times when there is a hit every 100 microseconds and that's what forced the parent commenter to focus on performance optimization but nothing about this was mentioned in the comment.

Details about traffic in such peak times would have made the parent comment by 'sideproject' interesting. But with the current details in the comment right now, it is going to leave readers confused why one needs to discuss performance optimization for a hit every 17 seconds on average.




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