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   by random123 14y ago

   In this case the 50 worker processes started by apache were just not enough to handle all requests. Each page hit creates about 30 requests for html,js,css,png and gif files, so each hit keeps quite a few workers busy. ;)
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   by random123 14y ago

   From the 23000 hits so far only about 300 came from faceboook ... not really that much. I'm pretty sure that the amount of req/sec caused the problems. After a configuration change between 150 and 200 apache2 workers were constantly occupie
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   by random123 14y ago

   The link got about 13000 hits so far, thereof about 5000 hits with a referrer value containing "ycombinator". But as only 3481 hits occured during the 3 days before it was posted on HN, I guess that actually about 9000 hits are due to HN. I
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   by random123 14y ago

   Well ... actually we can. The web server configuration has been changed to handle this amount of requests and it is working pretty good right now. :) We did not really anticipate that much traffic, as it is far more than what we usually see
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   by random123 14y ago

   The link is working again now, but has been replaced with a low bandwidth version. (The original version just contained additional images.) The amount of request generated by this site was unfortunately a bit too much for the web server. (I