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Got curious and started looking around and found a few blog posts about being on HN front page, and it appears like you might get a traffic spike of 15-50k hits
by darksaints 5y ago
Got curious and started looking around and found a few blog posts about being on HN front page, and it appears like you might get a traffic spike of 15-50k hits over the course of the day. That is a ridiculously low standard...basic WordPress with a caching plugin on a free tier AWS instance or raspberry pi can handle that sort of volume.
If you're going to make a big deal about being contrarian with your technological choices, you either have to be really good at what you do, or be really honest about what tradeoffs you're making. I'd be extremely embarrassed if I pushed this blog post out.
- gonzo41 5y agoTotally agree, but hold out. The contrite follow-up blog post about why they switched to K8's will be a great read.
- leephillips 5y agoI’ve had a few pieces on my personal site hit the front page here, and there was no effect on site behavior at all. Just Apache on a very modest VPS, with some non-essential dynamic content handled by Django. I don’t notice the traffic spikes until I look at my server logs the next morning.
- nindalf 5y agoMy thumb rule of how many hits a site on HN gets is roughly 100x upvotes. So 100 upvotes = 10k clicks over 8-10 hours. This is from my experience with 3 links that hit the front page with between 150-420 upvotes. I was serving static HTML off a $5 VPN and later off Cloudflare Pages. The response times were stable in both cases for all users.