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Go to French Pass on the northern tip of the south island. It's a beautiful and remote spot.

Creating a daily average of concurrent visits isn't relevant. Servers don't take an average of all the possible future hours of complete inactivity when they are serving up request…

Lots of people are misunderstanding that chartbeat figure. It's not 287 visits in a 45 minute window. These are visitors who are currently interacting with your site. Some are idle…

Knowing how many people are on your pages at any one time isn't a meaningless number. You're right in the sense that it's not a great way to assess quantitative site load. I just u…

Not sure why I have to defend the number. I think any #1 post would see 287 concurrents. http://imgur.com/yfn9Dnd (look at the 30 day max). I was a little off, it was 282 concurren…

My main site, AppRaptor, isn't on octopress. Just this blog. I agree with you 100% that the problem was apache + mod_php. Nginx would have probably been better. I decided to try ou…

Fair enough. I think we are all sick of hearing about WP Supercache. My post was about middleman + s3 + cloudfront, however. I think this combination of tools isn't as well known a…

A lot of people on HN are still learning things like this. I understand that a post like this doesn't add any value to someone like you who probably knows this stuff inside and out…

Must be your internet. My server load time is hanging steady at 455 ms.

The issue is a static site shouldn't even need to use caching techniques. When I'm building an app I will use memcached with redis. But this post was just about getting a host envi…

Fixed those errors. Thanks. I did make a lot of changes suggested. I changed my about page a lot, and made copy changes to much of the stuff on the homepage. Keep in mind that this…

Also, it's unreasonable to expect the author to make every change which is recommended. Some things are judgement calls. I really appreciated the feedback of HN and acted on most t…

I beg to differ. I changed a lot of stuff which was recommended by HN. What errors do you see? The main thing I didn't change was I kept the open source stuff highlighted because t…

My site made it to #1 on hacker news last wednesday for a couple of hours. It peaked at 287 concurrents. Unfortunately, I wasn't expecting that kind of surge and only had it on a s…

Thanks for the link. That was a really useful article for me.

Thanks for those resources. Didn't know about them and they look really useful.

It's not a wordpress site.

Yeah, I supposed more people would just be interested in the free stuff so I made it easier for them to find it. My rationale was if somebody liked my work then they wouldn't mind …

Excellent points. I've mainly been working remotely, but I am also willing to travel to the bay area to visit clients (might even move there soon). I will make some changes to that…

Yeah, good call. I wasn't expecting this kind of surge so I didn't plan ahead.

Thanks for the firefox heads up. I'll look into that. I'm embarrassed about the grammar issues. Two people have now commented about that. I have been writing a lot of the copy late…

I prefer developing in ruby/rails. I just put this site up on my small linode because I didn't need to do anything dynamic with it. The linode was already configured for PHP so I w…

Yeah, sorry. In retrospect I should have put this site up on heroku.