My website usually has very little activity (about 100-200 visits per day for an open source project) and out of nowhere I went #1 on HN last week-end for a blo

My website usually has very little activity (about 100-200 visits per day for an open source project) and out of nowhere I went #1 on HN last week-end for a blog article. From saturday to monday: 80,935 unique visits with peaks of 600 simultaneous people on site. Out of those 81K, 24,661 came from HN. The average time spent on site was 2:11. No real pattern, things started going viral as soon as the article hit the front page (which took a couple of hours). Things died off very quickly after 3 days of intense load. Now I had never expected that type of load... In fact my blog is hosted on the cheapest shared hosting service NearlyFreeSpeech. I want to mention that they held the charge perfectly. I wrote a quick article about it with more numbers: http://www.nicolasbize.com/blog/and-the-best-shared-hosting-service-is-nearlyfreespeech/ http://www.nicolasbize.com/blog/and-the-best-shared-hosting-...