@GoodHosting said: WordPress is still going to eat all your resources, as well as all the
fancybells and whistles plugins people insist on using, often coded terribly.
The problem with WordPress is that it is too popular for what it is.
The core isn't excessively bad, even though it is quite heavy on resources. But as soon as you have to add plugins to your installation, you are exposing yourself to attacks and you're really asking to be pwned in all possible ways. If bloggers aren't going to care about this, then they shouldn't be complaining.
I am fairly confident that most bloggers could switch to a static site generator. I did so with really no hassle There are plenty, they're easy to set up and well-supported; check Ghost (NodeJS), Jekyll (Ruby), Pelican (Python), etc.
Back OT: OP, if you cache everything properly (with Varnish) then your server should be able to handle a pretty heavy load.
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