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Is this high HN traffic? Sites can't routinely be going down with 2k users and 20k page views right?

• burtonator 8y ago
  Not modern ones on decent architecture. Going down isn't the problem so much as making sure the content + app you're trying to showcase is working. If you do a Show HN post and your app doesn't scale or has a glitch it would suck to have everyone have a poor experience.
• minimaxir 8y ago
  Years ago, when one of my posts made it to #1 on Hacker News, the traffic was so much for my cheap WordPress blog hosted on DreamHost that they "moved" the blog to a more high-demand system and somehow corrupted the database in the process. In less than 24 hours I learned how static blog sites work and somehow I was able to migrate everything using Google caches.
• wyqydsyq 8y ago
  Maybe half a decade ago it wasn't uncommon, these days it's pretty rare to see something crash out from HN post DDoS unless it's some kind of webapp that isn't properly scalable