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The author talks about going viral. He also says that these higher plan features should just be disabled. To me that appears to mean that he wants his site to
by DanBC 6y ago
The author talks about going viral. He also says that these higher plan features should just be disabled. To me that appears to mean that he wants his site to go dark if he goes over traffic limits.
Here's what Ghost does if you go over your traffic limits:
> Average views per month
> Views refer to the number of requests to your site each month. These are tracked much like an analytics 'pageview' - and are incremented with each page or API request.
> We never disable sites for traffic spikes, so no need to worry about the front page of Reddit or HN. If you exceed your limit consistently on a 3 month rolling average, we'll just let you know that you need to upgrade.
I think this is pretty good? It would be better if they allowed the user to set a hard limit in advance.
- thaumasiotes 6y ago>> We never disable sites for traffic spikes, so no need to worry about the front page of Reddit or HN. If you exceed your limit consistently on a 3 month rolling average, we'll just let you know that you need to upgrade. > I think this is pretty good? It would be better if they allowed the user to set a hard limit in advance. I agree that that's pretty good, although it still leaves you vulnerable to a page that goes viral enough to get triple the number of allowed views. That will block your 3-month rolling average for 3 months, but if your monthly traffic looks like this: Month 1: 50k views Month 2: 50k views Month 3: 400k views - no big deal, sometimes surges happen Month 4: 50k views - you know, you're starting to push your limits... Month 5: 50k views - OK, at this point, we need you to upgrade At that point, the demand to upgrade looks pretty strange.