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I was curious just how much traffic a front-page HN post generates and found this excellent post: https://blog.royalsloth.eu/posts/how-much-traffic-comes-from-t
by daemonologist 3y ago
I was curious just how much traffic a front-page HN post generates and found this excellent post: https://blog.royalsloth.eu/posts/how-much-traffic-comes-from-the-front-page-of-hackernews/ https://blog.royalsloth.eu/posts/how-much-traffic-comes-from...
In their case traffic peaked just under 10000 requests per hour.
(RoyalSloth's blog survived the hug while hosted on Hetzner's smallest 1 vCPU instance.)
- gnicholas 3y agoI was on the cheapest plan Heroku offers when my startup hit #1. Things got sluggish so I had to spin up another dyno, but it was fine after that. Of course things depend heavily on time of day and day of week. Since it's currently the holidays in much of the world, things could be slower than normal.