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Our web sys admin heard me read that out loud and now we have to get him an ice-pack because he almost shoved his head entirely through his desk.

• PuffinBlue 10y ago
  Is that meant as a rude retort? Because if it is it from the team that currently can't keep a blog post online when you get a few thousand concurrent visitors, so you might keep yourself open to suggestions and perhaps undertake the BASIC best practices of keeping a Wordpress site up under load. If nothing else it shows a basic lack of planning for what you know to be a massively popular post, so turn a little of that judgement back on yourselves. It's possible easily handle tens of millions of hits a day on a tiny VPS if you do even some basics right[1] and that was without any particularly extensive optimisation. [1] http://reviewsignal.com/blog/2014/06/25/40-million-hits-a-day-on-wordpress-using-a-10-vps/ http://reviewsignal.com/blog/2014/06/25/40-million-hits-a-da... EDIT: I may not be allowed to reply to the comment below due to HackerNews restrictions so incase the option doesn't become available in the next while I'll just say I accept the answer below gracefully, withdraw my daggers and take a calming beer at the end of a long day :-) I'm wish you continued success and look forward to the next post.
  • atYevP 10y ago
    No, he was agreeing. We have a lot of projects on our map to shore up some of these types of issues, but our admins are in high demand, so some of the lower-priority tasks slip on occasion. Since we rarely have issues with the blog (today was an exception) it tends to be a "we know what we'd like to change, but we'll do it when we have time" type of silo on our website. *Edit -> to your above edit -> I think if you expand the comment by hitting the "time submitted" link you can leave a reply, thus subverting HN :P
    • PuffinBlue 10y ago
      Huh, it works! :-)
      • atYevP 10y ago
        #SubvertingTheInternetsSince1998 :D