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I don't understand why this is on the front page of Hacker News. 100k monthly page views is 139 per hour. Even if you assume the peak rate is 10x the average, t

• Scoundreller 7y ago
  It really depends on your target market. If it’s a consumer service in a couple of times zones, you’ll get the bulk of your traffic in the evenings. E.g. my personal finance traffic would be mostly on weekday evenings. These were usually 9-5 working people, so not a ton of traffic overnight, holidays. Weekdays had more traffic than weekends. I switched to static some years ago because the VPS running Drupal kept crashing with 100k visitors per month.
• rchaud 7y ago
  Since the site in question is a personal blog site that isn't updated daily, the 100k page views likely aren't uniformly distributed across the entire month, but occur in a single spike at a certain time, e.g. when a link from it goes to the HN front page. In that scenario, the majority of hits will happen in the <24-hour period when the link is on Page 1. The rest of the month could see daily traffic in the hundreds, and it might still amount to 100k+ if added to the traffic obtained during the viral spike .