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I don't know if I'm underestimating HN's reach but I doubt we did that, probably traffic from a much bigger aggregator/forum
by BetterThanSober 5mo ago
I don't know if I'm underestimating HN's reach but I doubt we did that, probably traffic from a much bigger aggregator/forum
- jezzamon 5mo agoYou are underestimating HN's reach, this happens all the time. As someone who has been on the front page of HN it's a pretty big rush in traffic!
- pstuart 5mo agoI'd wager that the load is amplified by other sites that treat HN as a goldmine of tasty links.
- NorwegianDude 5mo agoHacker news doesn't generate much traffic, despite what people are saying. The host here has a limit of 160000 files served each day. That is extremely low. If the site has an icon, css, a js file and a few images it's 10 files each visit. That's will limit it to 16k visits/day. If there are more files loaded it might just handle a few thousand visits, and they have received more than that from HN now.
- ethin 5mo agoWait really? I'm not really sure what to think and I posted before I saw this... I wonder why the limit is so low?
- Anduia 5mo agoWell, if every asset request hits the origin (no CDN, no caching...) that would be a misconfiguration of the website. It should never happen for a blog.
- SonOfLilit 5mo agoA decade ago I was on the front page and saw ~16k uniques/hour I think?
- BetterThanSober 5mo agoYeah misconfig would also be my guess, too much cache miss
- kaka314 5mo agoYeah, it's hard to tell thb, just a guess. But potentially the site also misconfigured their server, causing too much cache misses and hitting the server direclty.
- reactordev 5mo agoThe HN hug of death is real. If you aren’t prepared, it can set fire to your server room.
- claytongulick 5mo agoOldtimers 'round these parts call it "slashdotted"
- reactordev 5mo agoI'll forever miss Web 1.0
- simondotau 5mo agoSlashdot was Web 2.0 in every respect except for the mid-2000s design aesthetic.