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These lights and the story behind them are interesting, but weathering the flood you'll get if this makes it to the front page is the real story. http://www.ras

These lights and the story behind them are interesting, but weathering the flood you'll get if this makes it to the front page is the real story. http://www.rascalmicro.com http://www.rascalmicro.com claims that "The Rascal is powerful enough to handle real web traffic...", and HN has been known to take down much larger hardware. I signed up for the mailing list last year, and I'm still waiting eagerly for launch! The last blog post on http://pingswept.org/ http://pingswept.org/ and https://twitter.com/#!/rascalmicro https://twitter.com/#!/rascalmicro both look promising.

pingswept 15y ago
(Hi Kevin.) Thanks for the enthusiasm. I'm watching the logs stream via tail -f right now, and the Rascal is holding up OK. The post is near the bottom of the front page now, and it's handling around 10 hits per second fine. The Rascal is serving both the light control and all the background pages ("what", "story", "technicals") as well. I'm actually more worried about the cable connection to my house than the Rascal. (Eerik put the angerlights in my basement while he moves to California. By the way, he's looking for a job: http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=89147645 http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=89147645) More beta units are on the way-- the hardware beta was successful; software testing is underway. I'll write up a post-mortem on the HN traffic and put it on the Rascal blog (http://rascalmicro.com/blog/ http://rascalmicro.com/blog/) in a couple days.