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I have been seeing quite often that the webpages makes it to first place on Hacker News are getting unresponsive, slow or even down just like this one. Is ther

I have been seeing quite often that the webpages makes it to first place on Hacker News are getting unresponsive, slow or even down just like this one. Is there anybody knows about the load statistics when a story on Hacker News gets on the first place? What i mean is; how many requests are made to a web page, what is the req/seq and etc? I guess this would be useful for me and other people to get ready for possible load on our site to be sure if we can handle this load.

pothibo 12y ago
My blog has been in the top 5 a few times. When you reach the top 3 positions, you can expect around 150-250 simultaneous users for a few hours. Top 5 is more like 50-75. Top 15 is around 25-50. Those numbers aren't req/sec but simultaneous user. There's a difference between the two but it still gives you a number to compare things to. All you read about how the top 3 gets 75% of the traffic in Google is true to about every places where there's ordering. As for the load, it depends a lot, that website seems to poll HN's API quite a lot so maybe that's how they get down (HN throttle the # of query). I made it on the top 5 with a VPS on 128MB of RAM and didn't even feel it (without caching). You need a LOT of traffic for a blog to be affected by the load. Obviously, when you do a lot of polling/database intensive stuff (games, etc.) the bottlenecks are easier to reach.