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Re: I quit my high-paying job to follow my dream of launching a startup. Here it is.

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Post by morganpyne »

dools wrote: post #158
wodow wrote: post #95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Has anyone who's been hackernews'd done an analysis on the load numbers? Back in the day there was http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slashdot_effect#Notes_and_refer...

I got about 12k people through to my blog post "Thanks Louis C.K now here's my dad" post the other day, and then about 4,000 of them clicked through to nickdooley.com (which is on the same server). I had already increased my MaxClients setting to 120 a few weeks previously when I got about the same number through to "Your templating engine sucks and everything you've ever written is spaghetti code" post but I forgot…

Setting your max clients to 220 on that setup is a terrible idea. You will probably cause the machine to start swapping as there is insufficient memory for each PHP process. It will grind to a slow halt. You should calculate your MaxClients based on the amount of load the machine can actually handle, not the amount you wish it could handle :-)

A conservative estimate of 20MB per PHP process would already put the requirements for 220 of them at over 4GB (twice what you have) and that's not allowing anything for the OS and anything else running on the machine. Its not an exact science figuring out the appropriate MaxClients, but you should find out how much the rest of the machine needs, look up the average Apache process size (ps), divide the available memory by that and then reduce it a little. Use this as you starting point for figuring out the MaxClients. Keep an eye on the available free memory for a while (vmstat) and gradually up that limit until you reach a comfortable working level for the setting.

Re: I quit my high-paying job to follow my dream of launching a startup. Here it is.

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Post by Mamady »

snorkel wrote: post #125
marknutter wrote: post #22

Kudos to you for following your dream, but I do have to say I'm fully against making it easier for people to move that which should stay on the web to native apps. We have web browsers for a reason.

I think it's genius. WP site owners don't care about channel redundancy, they just want a push button method of putting their content into as many channels as possible. Catering to the "Look Ma, I made a mobile app!" crowd is a big market.

Although I agree - I'm not sure this is monetizable.

The real question - are these people willing to pay $500 to say "Look ma...."?

Re: I quit my high-paying job to follow my dream of launching a startup. Here it is.

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Post by dools »

morganpyne wrote: post #191
dools wrote: post #158

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I got about 12k people through to my blog post "Thanks Louis C.K now here's my dad" post the other day, and then about 4,000 of them clicked through to nickdooley.com (which is on the same server). I had already increased my MaxClients setting to 120 a few weeks previously when I got about the same number through to "Your templating engine sucks and everything you've ever written is spaghetti code" post but I forgot…

Setting your max clients to 220 on that setup is a terrible idea. You will probably cause the machine to start swapping as there is insufficient memory for each PHP process. It will grind to a slow halt. You should calculate your MaxClients based on the amount of load the machine can actually handle, not the amount you wish it could handle :-) A conservative estimate of 20MB per PHP process would already put the requ…

Yeah - what's weird is that it didn't start swapping. I haven't really looked into it, but maybe because so many of the processes were downloading those MP3 files they didn't take up as much memory (although that sounds wrong as I'm pretty sure as far as Apache is concerned, a process is a process regardless of what's being downloaded).

At any rate it worked fine and was maxed at one point so hell knows why. I increased it gradually and was looking at the free memory etc. but it never exhausted it - but ps ax | grep httpd showed circa 200 processes.

I've put it back down to something safer now ;) when I have some spare time I'm going to try and figure out if/why it didn't appear to run out of memory when it looked like it should have.

But then again when I have some spare time I really just want to set up a better hosting environment that doesn't rely so much on apache.

Re: I quit my high-paying job to follow my dream of launching a startup. Here it is.

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Post by crgt »

agentgt wrote: post #49

At what point is it okay to post you have started a new website / business on hacker news? Here goes my karma. Since we are doing shameless plugs here are my two (and yes I quit very high paying jobs ... 1.5~2 times more than @gozman ...): http://snaphop.com http://evocatus.com

Snaphop.com's display breaks for me in mobile Safari. May be worth looking at again given that the focus of the site is on mobile marketing.

Re: I quit my high-paying job to follow my dream of launching a startup. Here it is.

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Post by andy_boot »

Mamady wrote: post #192
snorkel wrote: post #125

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think it's genius. WP site owners don't care about channel redundancy, they just want a push button method of putting their content into as many channels as possible. Catering to the "Look Ma, I made a mobile app!" crowd is a big market.

Although I agree - I'm not sure this is monetizable. The real question - are these people willing to pay $500 to say "Look ma...."?

compared to the cost of an IOS dev. I'd say it's definitely worth a punt.

Re: I quit my high-paying job to follow my dream of launching a startup. Here it is.

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Post by iusable »

iusable wrote: post #67
jaipilot747 wrote: post #51

Sites that hit the homepage on HN crash so often I dream of quitting my job to launch a startup whose sole service is to HN-proof your site

+1

I love these people who are voting me down cause I am giving positive feedback on HN. LOL!

Re: I quit my high-paying job to follow my dream of launching a startup. Here it is.

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Post by mike-cardwell »

iusable wrote: post #197
iusable wrote: post #67

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+1

I love these people who are voting me down cause I am giving positive feedback on HN. LOL!

What feedback? All I see is "+1" ? There are upvote buttons for a reason.

Re: I quit my high-paying job to follow my dream of launching a startup. Here it is.

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Post by iusable »

mike-cardwell wrote: post #198
iusable wrote: post #197

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I love these people who are voting me down cause I am giving positive feedback on HN. LOL!

What feedback? All I see is "+1" ? There are upvote buttons for a reason.

Ah ok. Let the hate continue.

Re: I quit my high-paying job to follow my dream of launching a startup. Here it is.

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Post by polyfractal »

tsunamifury wrote: post #185
mobiplayer wrote: post #123

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Me too. 29, no MBA and not even half of that :-)

I'm 26 and I make 160k in financial services. Its enough for me and a girlfriend to afford a 600 sqft loft. 80k will get you 5 roommates and bedroom with a curtain. In San Francisco 250k to 300k/y is high paid. 100k-150k is making it, 80k would be in the low paid arena.

Meh, quit whining. Try 32k in Boston and get back to me about "low paid"
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