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HN DDoS.

• bartkappenburg 14y ago
  We're scaling up as we speak.. hold tight!
  • danielhughes 14y ago
    Do you mind sharing some details? This happens to a lot of sites so it would be interesting to know what your initial configuration was and what you scaled up to.
    • bartkappenburg 14y ago
      sure! let me first fix the scaling ;-)
• thejosh 14y ago
  I would love to see an analysis from someone who gets HN'd/Slashdotted/Reddit'd often traffic stats. I know that the "frontpage" of reddit would garner you hundreds of thousands of hits.
  • sparkinson 14y ago
    Happened a long time ago, but my site (http://isitup.org http://isitup.org :P) hit the front page of Reddit: http://imgur.com/a/UUY8d http://imgur.com/a/UUY8d Unfortunately I seem to have lost the bandwidth stats, but the load is the cool one. And my poor VPS didn't actually crash through all that.
  • benologist 14y ago
    There are heaps of blog posts on HN, digg, reddit, slashdot etc from overly excited dudes who can't wait to show us what a one day spike then decline back to nothing looks like in Google Analytics.
• bartkappenburg 14y ago
  Scaling = fixed! Now running 10 instances for handling the requests. Happy cookiechecking!
  • peterwwillis 14y ago
    What exactly are the 10 instances? Did you add VPS's or just more child processes to handle connections? If you haven't already, it's good practice to calculate how much resources one instance/thread/process of your server takes up, and then allocate as much as your server allows. (of course take into consideration shared memory/copy-on-write when calculating limits)