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HN hugged to death. Here's the snapshot on archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20200630130517/http://antirez.com/news/133 https://web.archive.org/web/20200630

HN hugged to death. Here's the snapshot on archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20200630130517/http://antirez.com/news/133 https://web.archive.org/web/20200630130517/http://antirez.co...

bactisme 6y ago
I think its website need a fast cache.
- antirez 6y ago
  Actually the web site uses Redis as the only store. And Redis is using 0.1% of CPU. The problem is that Ruby sucks at doing anything scalable. It's just a Ruby/Sinatra app. If you do that in PHP, it will work out of the box with many concurrent accesses. With Ruby not the case. There are ways to deploy it better, but it should be fast as default, which is not the case.
  - izietto 6y ago
    That sounds like a good area on which you might work! :D
  - ahmetkun 6y ago
    I guess it would be interesting if you re-wrote your website in PHP and wrote a blog post about it with the title 'Why I Moved From Ruby to PHP?'
    - deleted 6y ago
      [deleted]
    - tgtweak 6y ago
      Or just build a proper Ruby implementation
      - alt_f6 6y ago
        wrap PHP in a Ruby runtime?
  - rakoo 6y ago
    As a lover of Tcl (https://web.archive.org/web/20200615130120/http://antirez.com/articoli/tclmisunderstood.html https://web.archive.org/web/20200615130120/http://antirez.co...), I'm surprised you're using ruby and not something Tcl-based with its built-in concurrency
  - niyazpk 6y ago
    NGINX supports Lua scripting. Many years ago I worked on a system which ran a full website on NGINX + Lua + Redis.
entropie 6y ago
I actually wonder how many request/s one gets from being on the top of HN.
- tuananh 6y ago
  not very high a previous post of mine got 500 points and stay #1 for a few hours. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22410448 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22410448 traffic from it looks like this https://tuananh.net/2020/03/02/traffic-from-top-post-on-hacker-news/ https://tuananh.net/2020/03/02/traffic-from-top-post-on-hack...
  - Izkata 6y ago
    > Traffic stats on Cloudflare seems a bit inflated with the unique visitors at 36k. Maybe they do count bots as well there. First screenshot looks like Google Analytics to me; I'd say it's more likely a lot of us have blocked it and Cloudflare's number is more accurate.
- polote 6y ago
  "antirez 2 hours ago. 52347 views. "
  - ojosilva 6y ago
    Those are the ones that got through all the way, or at least the ones that got picked up by the view counter. Not the people that got error or timed-out responses.
- rikroots 6y ago
  My "Show HN" post was in the bottom half of the HN home page for less than an hour. Traffic to the site was roughly 100 times greater than its current levels (by bandwidth): https://www.linkedin.com/posts/rik-roots-50349611_in-case-anyone-ever-wondered-what-effects-activity-6679451662999986176-UdZK/ https://www.linkedin.com/posts/rik-roots-50349611_in-case-an...
ignoramous 6y ago
archive.is: https://archive.is/w1oCw https://archive.is/w1oCw

HN hugged to death. Here's the snapshot on archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20200630130517/http://antirez.com/news/133 https://web.archive.org/web/20200630130517/http://antirez.co...

bactisme 6y ago

I think its website need a fast cache.

antirez 6y ago
Actually the web site uses Redis as the only store. And Redis is using 0.1% of CPU. The problem is that Ruby sucks at doing anything scalable. It's just a Ruby/Sinatra app. If you do that in PHP, it will work out of the box with many concurrent accesses. With Ruby not the case. There are ways to deploy it better, but it should be fast as default, which is not the case.
- izietto 6y ago
  That sounds like a good area on which you might work! :D
- ahmetkun 6y ago
  I guess it would be interesting if you re-wrote your website in PHP and wrote a blog post about it with the title 'Why I Moved From Ruby to PHP?'
  - deleted 6y ago
    [deleted]
  - tgtweak 6y ago
    Or just build a proper Ruby implementation
    - alt_f6 6y ago
      wrap PHP in a Ruby runtime?
- rakoo 6y ago
  As a lover of Tcl (https://web.archive.org/web/20200615130120/http://antirez.com/articoli/tclmisunderstood.html https://web.archive.org/web/20200615130120/http://antirez.co...), I'm surprised you're using ruby and not something Tcl-based with its built-in concurrency
- niyazpk 6y ago
  NGINX supports Lua scripting. Many years ago I worked on a system which ran a full website on NGINX + Lua + Redis.

entropie 6y ago

I actually wonder how many request/s one gets from being on the top of HN.

tuananh 6y ago
not very high a previous post of mine got 500 points and stay #1 for a few hours. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22410448 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22410448 traffic from it looks like this https://tuananh.net/2020/03/02/traffic-from-top-post-on-hacker-news/ https://tuananh.net/2020/03/02/traffic-from-top-post-on-hack...
- Izkata 6y ago
  > Traffic stats on Cloudflare seems a bit inflated with the unique visitors at 36k. Maybe they do count bots as well there. First screenshot looks like Google Analytics to me; I'd say it's more likely a lot of us have blocked it and Cloudflare's number is more accurate.
polote 6y ago
"antirez 2 hours ago. 52347 views. "
- ojosilva 6y ago
  Those are the ones that got through all the way, or at least the ones that got picked up by the view counter. Not the people that got error or timed-out responses.
rikroots 6y ago
My "Show HN" post was in the bottom half of the HN home page for less than an hour. Traffic to the site was roughly 100 times greater than its current levels (by bandwidth): https://www.linkedin.com/posts/rik-roots-50349611_in-case-anyone-ever-wondered-what-effects-activity-6679451662999986176-UdZK/ https://www.linkedin.com/posts/rik-roots-50349611_in-case-an...

ignoramous 6y ago

archive.is: https://archive.is/w1oCw https://archive.is/w1oCw