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We almost had a similar experience with our front-page HN post here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25314170 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25314170

• GordonS 6y ago
  That post got just over 100 points - very curious to know roughly what kind of traffic you say from it?
  • DataCrayon 6y ago
    Perhaps it was a slow day if 100 points isn't considered that many - I think the high traffic was from being on the front page! I wish I could quantify the traffic, but it really did wipe out the server, preventing everyone (including myself) from accessing it! I couldn't even remote in to shutdown/reboot. The last number I had was just as things were grinding to a halt. It was just over 350 "realtime" users according to google analytics!
    • GordonS 6y ago
      Hehe, I didn't mean to say 100 points wasn't a lot, only that it was fairly "standard" for being on the front page, and would make for an interesting metric.
• hinkley 6y ago
  On my bucket list is using the "Referer" header to aggressively redirect traffic from hug-of-death websites toward cached pages. It's been a long time since I've worked somewhere that would benefit from that trick, so I haven't had a chance to use it.