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This submission has only 14 points at this time, and the server is already a smoking crater. Lesson: Ensure your infrastructure can handle the traffic before y
by pixelbath 14y ago
This submission has only 14 points at this time, and the server is already a smoking crater.
Lesson: Ensure your infrastructure can handle the traffic before you submit links to social sites.
- bduerst 14y agoSo uh, what is the question?
- jamesmiller5 14y agoIt might not have been the author submitting the site
- pixelbath 14y agoTrue, though in this case it was.
- netvarun 14y agoThe high traffic to the blog post has brought their entire site down. It's always a good idea to host the blog separately from the site - best is to use a managed solution (tumblr, wordpress.com, etc..)
- jiggy2011 14y agoHow do you know how much traffic you will get? I have no idea how many people visit HN and how many click on any given link in what space of time. Maybe PG or someone can give some guidance?
- engtech 14y agoIf you can't handle a couple of 1000 hits in a short time period... does wordpress still default to not having any caching solutions at all out of the box?
- waivej 14y agoI saw a load of about 200-250 simultaneous visitors when one of my sites got posted from ycombinator to the reddit. After 12 hours it tapered off.
- nerfhammer 14y agoThere's no excuse for failing under that kind of load serving what is essentially a small, static text document.