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>I like Go. I use it for a number of things (including this blog) and yet it goes down once it is posted on HN. I have had some articles of mine end up on HN a
by pilif 12y ago
>I like Go. I use it for a number of things (including this blog)
and yet it goes down once it is posted on HN. I have had some articles of mine end up on HN and I never went down, even when my blog was still WordPress hosted on a machine of mine.
This is probably more of a shortcoming of the various cloud providers than of the language/environment itself I guess.
- chimeracoder 12y ago> and yet it goes down once it is posted on HN. The "Retry for a live version" button is powered by Cloudflare, which also uses Go for many of its core services. So I'd be willing to bet it's the programming environment and/or the particular program, not the language.
- IgorPartola 12y agoNot a great metric. My blog once got unexpectedly slash dotted (ended up on Reddit and HN front pages for a day; silly enough the post was the one I put the least work into by far and the idea was not even mine). I was at the time running WordPress with WP Supercache using only right PHP workers. The site never had a hiccup. Ergo PHP is the best language out there? :) In reality, do use something like WP Supercache. It will save your hide.
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- wyager 12y agoDang it! I wasn't intending this to hit HN so soon. I was planning beefing up my VPS before I shared this one on HN. Sorry. I'll try to keep it up. If you just let it hang, the Cloudflare cached page should kick in.
- zemo 12y agoprogramming language semantics and server availability are distinct topics. If you write a beautiful Haskell program that generates n+1 queries on a database, it will fall over. That doesn't make Haskell bad. Nine times out of ten, making a blog survive the heavy traffic of something like being on HN front page just means knowing how to cache things.