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While I definitely respect seizing the snark opportunity.. I feel like I see loads of websites crash from HN / Reddit hug of death regardless of architecture, s

• tjoff 7y ago
  Maybe says more about current architectures. It is hard to imagine any reason as to why a normal site/blog couldn't cope with this. Now since whatever solution you pick is going to be an overengineered mess it's easy to understand each in isolation, most of us don't have the time/energy to optimize for this. And that is fine! But it is kinda sad that the quick and easy approach is not a statically generated site. There is absolutely no reason why that should be any harder. Yet for some reason we don't value that.
  • hombre_fatal 7y ago
    We don't value it when 99% of blogs never reach a level of traffic, beyond rare spikes, where they need to introduce a cache (like pre-generated files) in front of their dynamically-generated website. The blog operator likely doesn't even notice it, and when they do + are savvy enough, they just install one of the various Wordpress caching/static plugins. And we do value it when downtime loses us business, something that's not likely to apply to our personal blogs. Maybe Wordpress should enable some low-risk caching by default, but maybe it's not worth it since most installs never get traffic and caching is confusing especially to the non-tech-savvy.
    • tjoff 7y ago
      My point is that we probably should value simplicity itself. And as a bonus things like this wouldn't happen.