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How We Got 10,000 Visitors from Hacker News Within 3 Days and Screwed It Up

11 points by NonMathGirl 10y ago

runin2k1 10y ago
Ironic that their page crashed again but here's a cached version: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://kraftblick.com/blog/hacker-news-front-page/&num=1&strip=1&vwsrc=0 http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...
- nck4222 10y ago
  Literally the first point of the article: Part 1: How We Fucked Up 1. No website overload protection
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xen2xen1 10y ago
And the page isn't loading now... 2 for 2!
SteveNuts 10y ago
Third time's a charm
elchief 10y ago
have you considered hosting on geocities?
- Huhty 10y ago
  Meh, Tripod or Angelfire is where it's at.
NonMathGirl 10y ago
That's right, we made this fuck up for the second time :) In our defence, we didn't expect this post to gain a momentum. Now we are covered.
- sean_patel 10y ago
  > we made this fuck up for the second time You didn't fuck up the 2nd time. You fucked up the 1st time when you decided to use Wordpress.
bananabill 10y ago
Add in "We shouldn't put weird skeleton memes right at the top" that's like shorthand for "we aren't saying anything worthwile here"
- NonMathGirl 10y ago
  Thanks for your invaluable insight! It brings a whole new perspective to content marketing.
sean_patel 10y ago
The post lists "Overload Protection", "Popups" etc for their site overload, but this is the real reason their site crashed. > http://kraftblick.com/wp-login.php http://kraftblick.com/wp-login.php Wordpress is the only PIG that crashes for as little as 10K visits. Because ever freakin' godman request is a query to the database. No other CMS is this bad. And this is the reason this post also crashed the website. The irony of it all! Related Reading: https://www.reddit.com/r/Wordpress/comments/2x1xzv/how_do_i_stop_my_site_from_crashing_during_high/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Wordpress/comments/2x1xzv/how_do_i_...

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How We Got 10,000 Visitors from Hacker News Within 3 Days and Screwed It Up

11 points by NonMathGirl 10y ago

runin2k1 10y ago
Ironic that their page crashed again but here's a cached version: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://kraftblick.com/blog/hacker-news-front-page/&num=1&strip=1&vwsrc=0 http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...
- nck4222 10y ago
  Literally the first point of the article: Part 1: How We Fucked Up 1. No website overload protection
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[deleted]
xen2xen1 10y ago
And the page isn't loading now... 2 for 2!
SteveNuts 10y ago
Third time's a charm
elchief 10y ago
have you considered hosting on geocities?
- Huhty 10y ago
  Meh, Tripod or Angelfire is where it's at.
NonMathGirl 10y ago
That's right, we made this fuck up for the second time :) In our defence, we didn't expect this post to gain a momentum. Now we are covered.
- sean_patel 10y ago
  > we made this fuck up for the second time You didn't fuck up the 2nd time. You fucked up the 1st time when you decided to use Wordpress.
bananabill 10y ago
Add in "We shouldn't put weird skeleton memes right at the top" that's like shorthand for "we aren't saying anything worthwile here"
- NonMathGirl 10y ago
  Thanks for your invaluable insight! It brings a whole new perspective to content marketing.
sean_patel 10y ago
The post lists "Overload Protection", "Popups" etc for their site overload, but this is the real reason their site crashed. > http://kraftblick.com/wp-login.php http://kraftblick.com/wp-login.php Wordpress is the only PIG that crashes for as little as 10K visits. Because ever freakin' godman request is a query to the database. No other CMS is this bad. And this is the reason this post also crashed the website. The irony of it all! Related Reading: https://www.reddit.com/r/Wordpress/comments/2x1xzv/how_do_i_stop_my_site_from_crashing_during_high/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Wordpress/comments/2x1xzv/how_do_i_...