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Is HN front page a large spike in traffic?

• patio11 9y ago
  No. For the benefit of other folks doing capacity planning: expect peak load of ~25 requests per second [+] in the first few minutes after your thing hits the front page and 50k~80k sessions over the course of a day for a typical article-style UX, coming both from HN and Twitter/etc assisted magnification of HN articles. [+] For your HTML; you'll of course get the usual multiplication for linked scripts/css/images but you'll come nowhere close to saturating your uplink with those, so the limiting factor is almost certainly processing time for dynamic requests.