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Re: Ask HN: What is the most amount of people you have had on your site at one time?

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Post by enome »

xSwag wrote: post #4
enome wrote: post #3

Ten people at the same time is my max for a personal project ( http://sproutsheet.com or http://sproutshit.com as the haters like to call it) when I linked it on reddit.

I really like the design! Nice concept!

Thanks, I found out that grower enthausiasts have a lot of data to remember so thought it would be a cool app to make. I noticed that cannabis cultivation is really big on the internet so asked a reddit community what app they would like. My first prototype looked like twitter but they didn't really care for that. They just wanted an easy way to link data to a certain date. Would also love to have some vegie growers on the site but it's hard to get a foot in smaller communities without looking like a spammer. Anyway it's not really a commercial project but I do get a kick out of people using and enjoying my website.

Re: Ask HN: What is the most amount of people you have had on your site at one time?

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Post by philipwalton »

sw007 wrote: post #10
philipwalton wrote: post #7

When one of my articles made it to the #2 spot on Hacker News, I was watching my Google Analytics Real-Time stats pretty closely. It got as high as ~700 people on at one point. (Here's the submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5062761 )

700 people on the site at one time? Or 700 for the day? 700 at the same time is incredible (to me)! You must have been nervous about your server. When we hit 250 we panicked we would go down!

700 at the same time. 40K in the 24 hour period after it made the front page. Yeah, I was not expecting that.

Luckily, I had recently converted the site from WordPress to Jekyll and was hosting it on Github pages, so I didn't worry too much about the load.

Re: Ask HN: What is the most amount of people you have had on your site at one time?

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Post by xSwag »

enome wrote: post #11
xSwag wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I really like the design! Nice concept!

Thanks, I found out that grower enthausiasts have a lot of data to remember so thought it would be a cool app to make. I noticed that cannabis cultivation is really big on the internet so asked a reddit community what app they would like. My first prototype looked like twitter but they didn't really care for that. They just wanted an easy way to link data to a certain date. Would also love to have some vegie growers…

I wish I could have cannabis cultivation in the UK, but unfortunately it's illegal. I've been pondering whether I should start a basic kitchen garden type thing and your app just gave me a reason to!

Re: Ask HN: What is the most amount of people you have had on your site at one time?

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Post by mburst »

I had about 180 according to Google Analytics for http://maxburstein.com/blog/python-shortcuts-for-the-python-...

It was at the top of Hacker News and /r/programming for a little bit. It stayed pretty constant at that level for about half the day.

My first post to get over 120 users at a time was http://maxburstein.com/blog/creating-resume-using-latex/

It was at the top of /r/programming with over 1000 points so it was also getting some traffic from /r/all.

Re: Ask HN: What is the most amount of people you have had on your site at one time?

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Post by simonbarker87 »

Our company (www.radfan.com) was featured on BBC News Look North for 90 seconds (no web address mentioned so pure google searches) and I watched our google analytics real time climb to 1200 people simultaneous.

We were on BBC Radio 2 Drive Time the Friday before (web address mentioned this time) and we got about the same.

Shopify did an amazing job dealing with the traffic spike.

Good job getting on Click, that's awesome. We got lucky with the bad weather in March making our launch a relevant story.

Re: Ask HN: What is the most amount of people you have had on your site at one time?

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Post by habosa »

No idea how many at one time however I did get 50,000 hits for a post on my blog that sat in the HN top 10 for most of a day. That's like 34 hits a minute so I can safely assume I must have hit at least 10 at a time at some point during the day.

Re: Ask HN: What is the most amount of people you have had on your site at one time?

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Post by enome »

xSwag wrote: post #14
enome wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks, I found out that grower enthausiasts have a lot of data to remember so thought it would be a cool app to make. I noticed that cannabis cultivation is really big on the internet so asked a reddit community what app they would like. My first prototype looked like twitter but they didn't really care for that. They just wanted an easy way to link data to a certain date. Would also love to have some vegie growers…

I wish I could have cannabis cultivation in the UK, but unfortunately it's illegal. I've been pondering whether I should start a basic kitchen garden type thing and your app just gave me a reason to!

I've been thinking of growing indoor stawberries. Can never have enough strawberries. Red Alpine strawberries gives you fruit the whole year through. They are a bit smaller but they look awesome: http://imgur.com/8JzBPVr

Re: Ask HN: What is the most amount of people you have had on your site at one time?

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Post by kurtko »

Main Site: Around 2000 IIRC, before it crashed, anyway. This was back in the days of Digg, and less robust hosting. Average is 150-250 at a time, less at night, more during the day.

Micro-Site: We set up an experimental just-for-fun site with a bit of a viral edge and got 1.1 million visitors in one day, mostly from China - it apparently front-paged on a few major sites over there.

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