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Probably just getting the HN hug 'o death - just not loading for me atm.

crazygringo 6y ago
Honestly, I never understand the HN hug of death. Having had sites of mine get to the top of HN multiple times, it's always been around 4 visits per second. (= 15K/hr, or ~100K total over the course of a story.) Given that things like grabbing something from the database or serving up an image are on the order of a handful of milliseconds... it should be fine. If HN were sending 1,000 visits per second it would be a totally different story. But it's not. The amount of traffic just isn't that much.
- bluedays 6y ago
  Maybe you content wasn't that interesting, and people only cared about the headline.
- wbl 6y ago
  The C10K website was nearly 20 years ago.
- totalZero 6y ago
  If this site is at the top of HN then it may be at the top of other aggregators. If you have slow internet or a very asymmetrical link, and the site is heavy (lots of pictures or other BS), then does the server just refuse new connections when it saturates the link? I'm not sure what the behavior is.
- londons_explore 6y ago
  A badly designed site can use a second or so of CPU time per user request (eg. scanning through the entire database because someone didn't put an index on something). That won't be noticeable till you have 4 users per second hitting it...
- wkrause 6y ago
  Yeah and those numbers seem in line with what others have reported in HN meta threads on the topic, and at least an n of 1 personal experience. I totally get it when it’s a game or some other server intensive thing. Guess caching is an afterthought for a lot of smaller sites.
- diegocg 6y ago
  This is a teardown. The page includes lots of big, high resolution photos. Too much traffic per client.
  - kalleboo 6y ago
    From the error I get it seems to be behind CloudFlare though, which ought to be serving the images
- MarkusWandel 6y ago
  I think it's just because of the Apple M1 topic. I'm about as far as you can get from an Apple fanboy (Linux and open protocols/data all the way) but still curious what they've pulled off this time.

Honestly, I never understand the HN hug of death. Having had sites of mine get to the top of HN multiple times, it's always been around 4 visits per second. (= 15K/hr, or ~100K total over the course of a story.) Given that things like grabbing something from the database or serving up an image are on the order of a handful of milliseconds... it should be fine. If HN were sending 1,000 visits per second it would be a totally different story. But it's not. The amount of traffic just isn't that much.

bluedays 6y ago
Maybe you content wasn't that interesting, and people only cared about the headline.
wbl 6y ago
The C10K website was nearly 20 years ago.
totalZero 6y ago
If this site is at the top of HN then it may be at the top of other aggregators. If you have slow internet or a very asymmetrical link, and the site is heavy (lots of pictures or other BS), then does the server just refuse new connections when it saturates the link? I'm not sure what the behavior is.
londons_explore 6y ago
A badly designed site can use a second or so of CPU time per user request (eg. scanning through the entire database because someone didn't put an index on something). That won't be noticeable till you have 4 users per second hitting it...
wkrause 6y ago
Yeah and those numbers seem in line with what others have reported in HN meta threads on the topic, and at least an n of 1 personal experience. I totally get it when it’s a game or some other server intensive thing. Guess caching is an afterthought for a lot of smaller sites.
diegocg 6y ago
This is a teardown. The page includes lots of big, high resolution photos. Too much traffic per client.
- kalleboo 6y ago
  From the error I get it seems to be behind CloudFlare though, which ought to be serving the images
MarkusWandel 6y ago
I think it's just because of the Apple M1 topic. I'm about as far as you can get from an Apple fanboy (Linux and open protocols/data all the way) but still curious what they've pulled off this time.