Managing 10k+ Visitors Overnight with Bare Metal

Yesterday, *I Don’t Have Spotify* reached #2 on Hacker News, getting 700+ points https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42110877 . This brought in 13k views and over 10k unique visitors, pretty intense for a single day! What really stood out to me was how seamlessly the stack: HTMX, Bun, SQLite, and Dokku handled this traffic spike. No downtime, no slowdowns, no surprises. Just reliable performance.…