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Shouldn't be anything incredibly high. I haven't seen any recent traffic info for HN, but a couple of years ago dang posted some numbers here: https://news.ycom
by Deimorz 9y ago
Shouldn't be anything incredibly high. I haven't seen any recent traffic info for HN, but a couple of years ago dang posted some numbers here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9219581 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9219581
So at that point it was 2.6M views per day, which means HN itself was getting about 30 views per second. If you look at the 200k uniques instead (which might make more sense since any individual person will probably only click through once), that's about 2 unique visitors per second. So even if HN has grown a ton in the time since that post, I'd be surprised if it sent more than about 5 hits/second to anything.
- geofft 9y agoHah, the fact that HN itself is a single server (behind Cloudflare, these days) should be enough proof that anything linked to by HN is unlikely to need more than a single server behind a caching CDN.