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Why is it always the articles that tell you how to do things in production that take multiple seconds to load and/or throw database errors?

• dickeytk 12y ago
  because wordpress! ugh!!
  • 10098 12y ago
    https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/wp-cache https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/wp-cache
    • mwynholds 12y ago
      we have super-cache enabled and the apache KeepAliveTimeout down to 1 second (which killed us in the past). but hacker news still sends a crushing amount of traffic.
      • ddod 12y ago
        I don't think that's true. I've hit the front page a couple times and actually got very little traffic, and definitely nothing that my $5 vps with no caching couldn't handle.
        • mwynholds 12y ago
          were you running wordpress? i think the traffic that HN sends crushes wordpress specifically. who knows... maybe it's just our wordpress config. we're gonna port it over to a static site generator anyway.
          • Touche 12y ago
            Probably should switch to static content, a Raspberry Pi could handle the traffic no sweat.
            • buzzkills 12y ago
              Yes, raspberry pi with handle front page HN. Put free cloudflare in front and you're laughing.
    • mwynholds 12y ago
      honestly, i think it's time for us to move over to jekyll
  • antjanus 12y ago
    there's an easy fix: http://antjanus.com/blog/web-development-tutorials/fortify-wp-site-hn-posting/ http://antjanus.com/blog/web-development-tutorials/fortify-w...
• dickeytk 12y ago
  http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://blog.carbonfive.com/2014/06/02/node-js-in-production/ http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...
• mwynholds 12y ago
  perhaps it's time to run our blog on node...
• romanovcode 12y ago
  Maybe author should take his own advice and make his own website production ready.