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Seems a bit odd that it's down. This post has only a few upvotes right now, so the hug of death must have been pretty small.
by anonytrary 7y ago
Seems a bit odd that it's down. This post has only a few upvotes right now, so the hug of death must have been pretty small.
- jsjohnst 7y agoAgree. Very interesting read though!
- rbanffy 7y agoI wonder if there are other hug of death sources on the internet for sites like Wikichip. It has certainly survived more popular articles on HN.
- Tade0 7y agoI wonder how small a small HoD is really? 10k concurrent requests?
- jsjohnst 7y agoYou are way high for almost anything but a company website that has an engineering team dedicated to it. Yes, there are exceptions (my blog could handle orders of magnitude higher traffic than that, but I had a multi-tier CDN in front of it with 100% full page caching. Did it need it, no, but it was fun to setup). Typically speaking, most personal / non-professional sites going down from a HoD on HN probably got under 500 concurrent requests.