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We currently get just over 200k uniques and just under 2m page views on weekdays (less on weekends).
by pg 14y ago
We currently get just over 200k uniques and just under 2m page views on weekdays (less on weekends).
- douglasisshiny 14y agoThank you for creating a wonderful source of information!
- pitchups 14y agoDoes a single server support this level of traffic? That is pretty impressive - it would be great to learn about the server's hardware and software configuration.
- pasbesoin 14y agoI don't know whether things have changed since, but some time ago (a year or more?), IIRC pg mentioned that the site was running on a single core. (I don't recall his saying what type of core.) P.S. I see that abstractbill beat me to it, both in stating here and in originally acquiring this information: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5229548 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5229548
- jbverschoor 14y agoAround 40-60 requests per second, of which almost anything an be cached. Any single server should suffice.
- markokocic 14y agoBut you would need at least 30 Heroku dynos to handle that reliably ;)
- rtm 14y agoOld server: two Xeon E5450 chips, 3.0 GHz, 8 cores total, 24 GB RAM. New server: one Xeon E5-2690 chip, 2.9 GHz, 8 cores total, 32 GB RAM.
- rdl 14y agoWow, nice, that was exactly the HW I was predicting; the fastest single-core-performance xeon under turboboost.