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I had a project that was number 3 on the front page for a good part of a Saturday. I had 7500 unique visitors from HN including the traffic coming from linkbot
by binarymax 12y ago
I had a project that was number 3 on the front page for a good part of a Saturday.
I had 7500 unique visitors from HN including the traffic coming from linkbots that re-serve HN links.
With a single node.js (express) app on an EC2 medium instance and I was fine. I got about 10% conversion rate. It was a game with a signup page that required you to register first.
The single instance held up the static content and the app itself for a while. In hindsight I should have used an nginx reverse proxy for the homepage.
--EDIT-- here is the post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7364927 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7364927
--EDIT2-- changed conversion rate typo from 1% to 10%
- willismichael 12y agoSo by "1% conversion rate" you mean that around 75 people actually played your game? I see some discussion on your thread about how your server got hammered - was it the people hitting the landing page, or in-game requests?
- binarymax 12y agoOOPS! I meant 10% of 7500! About 750 people signed up to play and there were about 500 games played (a game needs exactly 2 players). The homepage stayed up the whole time. The stuff that got hurt was some actual gameplay due to an exception that was getting thrown, and I hotfixed.
- willismichael 12y agoHa! Nothing like recruiting a whole swarm of HNers to find some obscure bug :) I'm encouraged by your metrics of about 750 people and about 500 games - I think I could probably afford enough compute power to support that for a limited amount of time.