The proxying setup is expensive to run, and Puter had to scale up its servers to handle the traffic spike when the project went viral on Hacker News.

Routing all browser traffic through a central proxy is costly, and Puter had to scale up its infrastructure to survive the surge in visitors after the project hit Hacker News. ✦ AI generated

Simon Willison · Simon Willison's Weblog · 2026-07-16 · original ↗

That proxying sounds expensive! The team had to scale the servers up to handle the traffic during the Hacker News conversation about the project.

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