I recently had an unoptimized Django site running on render.com with the `plan: standard` setting survive the HN front page with a single node. I had autoscale set to on, but it never needed to scale up.

I don't know the requests/second, but at peak on Google Analytics it said that 300 people were on the site "right now" -- unsure of what that corresponds to. ~5-10 reqs/s roughly?

Also note that render.com puts Cloudflare in "front" of the nodes automatically, which helps with some caching.

(I'm unaffiliated btw, just moved to them from Heroku and have been happy to far)