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

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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 anderspetersson »

My side-project (http://www.quizme.se) got posted to a decent sized facebook-group and peaked at 400 active visitors. Then the postgres-server stalled at 100% CPU-usage and the site went down. I was at day-work and could not do much about it.

The hourly graph from Google analytics looks like this: https://www.diigo.com/item/p/podoedezbpdaaccrczbabdsacq/05eb...

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 androa »

I was one of two developers on a social media network in Norway, at peak hours (from about 20:00 till 22:00) we had 60.000 unique users with activity within the last 10 minutes. This generated about 400 dynamic req/s and about 6000 static req/s. We managed this sustained traffic with a total of 12 webservers (apache + memcached), 4 databases (mysql) and 6 Varnishes.

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 timjahn »

Asparagirl wrote: post #21

Over a hundred thousand. I was the Senior Web Producer (head geek) at Bravo, the cable channel, and we did live voting during "Project Runway" first-run episode commercial breaks, where viewers would respond to on-air questions either through our site or through SMS. Vote tallies were displayed during later commercial breaks, after a competitor had been eliminated. People who voted would also be entered in contests t…

That's awesome! How many people it take total to run the operation?

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 bpatrianakos »

From 1 to 20 then down to about 3 on average now. I've had my project (https://writeapp.me) on HN a few times but it really went nowhere. Recently however its been featured on MakeUseOf at least twice, Web Appstorm, and a number of other tech/teacher blogs.

Before the MakeUseOf article I'd get 3 to 10 hits a day with 1 visitor at a time. After the first MakeUseOf article it went to about 20 at a time for about a day. After that the site has been picked up by other blogs (some of them review it multiple times on different days) so the traffic has increased about 100% from pre-review levels and has been holding steady at about 100-ish visitors a day and 3 users at a time normally. Note that there are obviously periods in the day where its 0 because you can't have 100 uniques and 3 visitors on site at the same time all day. The math doesn't add up. I'm just talking about what I see whenever I check my analytics which is pretty often during the weekdays.

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 Asparagirl »

timjahn wrote: post #35
Asparagirl wrote: post #21

Over a hundred thousand. I was the Senior Web Producer (head geek) at Bravo, the cable channel, and we did live voting during "Project Runway" first-run episode commercial breaks, where viewers would respond to on-air questions either through our site or through SMS. Vote tallies were displayed during later commercial breaks, after a competitor had been eliminated. People who voted would also be entered in contests t…

That's awesome! How many people it take total to run the operation?

In LA (Burbank, actually) we had one manager, two devs (me and a slightly more junior person), and two video editors who transcoded stuff almost on-the-fly and kept our online video library humming along. In New York (at 30 Rock) we had about four content and social media people, two designers, and a photographer.

This was about five years ago, so the set-up is a little more robust now. For example, they now have a CMS to manage web content, whereas we used to code and manage all our assets by hand. And back then they were too stingy to buy an extra server to automate a lot of the processes, so I actually had to stay late every week to literally "push the button" to make things go live in sync with the on-air broadcasts. All kinds of crazy stuff, on a shoestring budget.

But yeah, if you're talking about code stuff alone, we only had two actual coders/devs, me and another girl. Fun times!

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