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I think his technical infrastructure was ready for it, but his marketing infrastructure was not ready to take full advantage of it. I've been TC'd once before,
by subwindow 18y ago
I think his technical infrastructure was ready for it, but his marketing infrastructure was not ready to take full advantage of it.
I've been TC'd once before, and it hit us at the worst possible time- a temporary banner was up for the hours before launch. That banner got more attention in the article than the service. The site held up fine, but >80% of the traffic was wasted. I think this is a pretty common phenomena.
- vaksel 18y agowhat were your server(s) specs?
- emmett 18y agoTechCrunch really just doesn't send that much traffic. If you can do 50 reqs/second you will be absolutely fine; it doesn't take any kind of special server.
- modoc 18y agoDitto. I handled hitting the front page of /., digg, and yahoo tech on the same day on a single dual core server. The site slowed down a little during the worst of it, but page load times were always reasonable. Unless your app is a total beast and/or you require a large amount of resources to service each user, a single server is probably fine.
- sdpurtill 18y agowhen we launched younoodle we hit NYT / techcrunch / venturebeat within a few hours. me and the other engineer slept through it and the site didn't go down once - it even stayed pretty fast throughout that day. btw, techcrunch doesn't send much traffic at all, we got more from delicious.
- subwindow 18y agoA single VPS, and it was running completely un-optimized code. It held up fine. We get more traffic now on a regular Monday morning than TechCrunch ever sent us. Their influence is greatly overstated.
- wallflower 18y ago> Their influence is greatly overstated. But doesn't being TechCrunch'd help your googleability/google page rank?
- subwindow 18y agoProbably a little bit, but they're just one site. Google would never put so much influence on one site- it is too gameable.