Arjay McCandless

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What happened lately

October 18, 2026 +5.8% subscribers this week The channel went from 120,000 to 127,000 subscribers that week.

This week on the channel +1.6M views this week

Arjay McCandless wouldn't ship his fastest server experiments

Community optimizations squeeze far more from a $12 machine, but maintainability gets its own turn in the spotlight.

Channel: Arjay McCandless · Story of October 15, 2026

Video taking off 6.8x its usual first day

Arjay McCandless' $12 server challenge runs into a Linux ceiling

Community programmers squeeze far more out of his modest machine, but the fastest solutions come with a practical catch.

Channel: Arjay McCandless · Story of October 14, 2026

The video drawing the most views now

I Asked Developers to Max Out a $12 Server (again)

Video published

October 23, 2026

Video views so far

109,997

Video views, pace per day

143,076

Views in its first 14 hours

109,997

Position on Trari and in the category

The ranking by views counts only channels whose weekly number is available.

The channel's share of the category

1.7% of all views the category's channels gained this week

Subscriber growth this week

4.0% on this channel, 0.0% on the category's middle channel

The channel's latest videos

The last 15 videos uploaded to the channel, with today's numbers. Click a video to play it here.

Video	Uploaded	Length	Views	Per day	First day	Likes	Comments
Railway hacked	October 23, 2026	1:45 short	10,488	-	10,488 (5 hours)	492	19
I Asked Developers to Max Out a $12 Server (again)	October 23, 2026	25:10	109,997	143,076	109,997 (14 hours)	3,316	424
Assembly API?	October 23, 2026	1:15 short	96,127	85,271	80,390	3,365	116
70% of the internet is about to get hacked	October 21, 2026	1:42 short	115,232	4,647	89,645	3,178	105
53% of developers got this question wrong.	October 21, 2026	1:04 short	84,100	10,125	53,951	2,768	107
How much slower are Microservices? (I tested)	October 20, 2026	12:50	163,625	15,593	104,438	3,950	377
More CPU cores = more users?	October 19, 2026	1:01 short	45,702	3,004	33,576	1,028	27
Is Fortran faster than Python??	October 16, 2026	0:59 short	50,256	1,876	21,630	1,002	54
More CPUs = Better? I tested 4 Programming Languages to Fin…	October 16, 2026	11:21	129,246	1,230	92,453	3,360	329
I challenged Rust Developers	October 15, 2026	1:39 short	141,665	3,047	81,552	4,030	136
I Asked Expert Programmers to Max Out a $12 Server	October 13, 2026	22:56	641,134	13,039	384,799	11,039	1,202
Why is PostgreSQL faster than SQLite?	October 12, 2026	1:49 short	77,410	1,233	37,301	2,255	45
Node vs Bun (which is faster?)	October 10, 2026	1:25 short	88,925	1,184	44,514	1,972	107
Serverless API Recipe	October 9, 2026	0:35 short	92,481	923	45,793	3,461	82
I Ran 4 Databases on the Same $12 Server	October 9, 2026	8:18	177,543	1,019	113,408	3,780	298

Audience engagement

likes per 1,000 views

24.2 in the category: 13.0

comments per 1,000 views

1.7 in the category: 1.1

a video's usual first day on this channel

63,740 views

short vs long

10 short (up to 3 minutes), 5 long
average views per short video: 80,238
average views per long video: 244,309

What happened on the channel in the last 30 days

The days when the channel's numbers left the ordinary.

1. October 18, 2026Weekly growthThe channel went from 120,000 to 127,000 subscribers that week.
2. October 17, 2026Weekly growthThe channel went from 120,000 to 126,000 subscribers that week.
3. October 16, 2026Weekly growthThe channel went from 118,000 to 125,000 subscribers that week.
4. October 15, 2026Weekly growthThe channel went from 118,000 to 124,000 subscribers that week.
5. October 15, 2026Views jumpThe whole channel ran that day at 584,032 views a day, 3 times a normal day (194,218).
6. October 14, 2026Video taking offI Asked Expert Programmers to Max Out a $12 Server The video opened at a pace of 422,523 views a day, 6.8 times a normal first day on this channel (61,786).Read the story
7. October 14, 2026Weekly growthThe channel went from 117,000 to 123,000 subscribers that week.
8. October 12, 2026Weekly growthThe channel went from 115,000 to 121,000 subscribers that week.
9. October 11, 2026Weekly growthThe channel went from 113,000 to 120,000 subscribers that week.
10. October 10, 2026Weekly growthThe channel went from 112,000 to 120,000 subscribers that week.
11. October 9, 2026Weekly growthThe channel went from 109,000 to 118,000 subscribers that week.
12. October 8, 2026Weekly growthThe channel went from 108,000 to 118,000 subscribers that week.