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I wouldn't assume that your app goes viral by default. In fact the chances of this happening are very slim. The guys that made breakup notifier almost went of
by travisglines 16y ago
I wouldn't assume that your app goes viral by default. In fact the chances of this happening are very slim. The guys that made breakup notifier almost went off the new page when they went viral.
What I would do is put it out there and be ready to take the steps you need to, to keep it alive if it does go viral. Planning too far ahead for this is probably a waste of your time as you most likely wont be able to see the weak points before hand. Just move quickly if it does.
- tce 16y agoI didn't say that I'm assuming my app will go viral by default. In fact, there's almost a 100% chance that it will not, of course, and I'm very cognizant of that fact. And I definitely do understand that planning too far ahead would be a waste of time. My issue is that I'm pretty clueless as to all this sysadmin stuff in the first place. If not for my current app, I'd at least like to have an idea on what steps to take should a future app go viral.
- atgm 16y agoWith this in mind, (price) scalable-CDNs are a good idea. Don't spend a lot of money up-front when you're not sure you'll get the traffic to merit it. I'm glad I didn't, because my site got all of five hits from HN... though, granted, it's not tech.
- tce 16y agoDid you have any recommendations (e.g. Cloudfront)? My google-fu is pretty weak, it seems. I'm not able to find any examples of how apps built on Ruby on Rails and deployed with Heroku were ensured to be robust.