Requests to a typical smallish site will not be uniformly distributed--not by a long shot. Given that the peak is what matters, if we might get a day's worth of traffic in a single hour, that's 19 requests per second instead of 0.8. Those 19 transactions per second will still sound tiny to many people, but a couple months ago we heard that Mt. Gox could only do 37 TPS. So 70k requests per day is not nothing, especially assuming non-uniform distribution, minimal effort to optimize performance, and cheap hardware (or virtual hardware).
On my home dev machine which is nothing to brag about (i5-750 overclocked to 4.2 ) golang was able to process that per second on a single core if you keep the static stuff prezipped in the ram.
