My blog has been on the front page of Hacker News a couple of times with GitHub Pages. It didn't break a sweat.

That's because you're using Microsoft's infrastructure for your site.

Sorry, I was saying that because I thought the poster was saying "you'll need a real host (instead of a free one) if you get more than 1k visits a day". But looking back, I think "real host" meant "not a phone" and not "not a free host". So my comment here didn't really make much sense.

It’s less about requests per day and more about my website going down if my phone is in my pocket.