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As useless as walmart's website is, I doubt that HN could break it by simply visiting. As the other poster said, if it's broke, that's probably due to black Fri
by fnordfnordfnord 11y ago
As useless as walmart's website is, I doubt that HN could break it by simply visiting. As the other poster said, if it's broke, that's probably due to black Fri/holiday traffic.
- mikeash 11y agoBeing on the front page of HN is worth about 20,000 hits a day in my experience. My $5/month VPS running every single page load through the incredibly slow BeautifulSoup parser handles it no problem. A link in the comments is probably an order of magnitude less traffic than that.