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Rob "CmdTaco" did some analysis - http://cmdrtaco.net/2011/10/then-along-came-hacker-news/ http://cmdrtaco.net/2011/10/then-along-came-hacker-news/ John Sheeha
by mountaineer 15y ago
Rob "CmdTaco" did some analysis - http://cmdrtaco.net/2011/10/then-along-came-hacker-news/ http://cmdrtaco.net/2011/10/then-along-came-hacker-news/
John Sheehan mentioned numbers the other day too - https://twitter.com/#!/johnsheehan/status/156271988195860480 https://twitter.com/#!/johnsheehan/status/156271988195860480
Seems like the "Hacker News 10K" would be an approximate general number or its going to approach that soon.
- bad_user 15y agoI never got 10K from Hacker News alone, but on my blog I got 10K from HN combined with Reddit, with the links being submitted at aprox. the same time, for 3 articles I wrote. My website is static, with no MySQL or PHP to speak of (by means of Jekyll), right now hosted on an AWS micro instance, served by Nginx. Prior to this it was hosted on Heroku's free plan, with offloading of static assets to GAE. For free and it didn't even blink. Seeing how people are talking about caching, load-balancing, clusters, beefy servers and so on, just makes me think how extremely awful and bloated Wordpress is.
- dboat 15y agoI don't think it's fair to conclude that wordpress is awful and bloated based on it performing worse than your setup. Static files and a cdn and no dynamic script are the ultimate optimization. Wordpress compares unfavourably because anything involving dynamic features would compare unfavourably.
- johns 15y agoIn the 36 hours after being on the home page the site had 13.5K visitors, 18K visits.