How many people are in space right now? • Hacker News Board

Re: How many people are in space right now?

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Post by jpswade » Thu, Sep 26, 2013, 2:19 PM UTC

JoshTriplett wrote: post #19

wldlyinaccurate wrote: post #17

Dear website owners, Please take the time to set up a service like CloudFlare[0]. It's free, and will prevent your site from going down during traffic spikes. There's really no downside. Regards, Frustrated User [0]: https://www.cloudflare.com/

No need for a CDN for a site like this; the content should be completely static and regenerated whenever it changes.

Using nginx reverse proxy would probably solve this.

Re: How many people are in space right now?

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Post by kps » Thu, Sep 26, 2013, 2:19 PM UTC

hidden-markov wrote: post #18

http://howmanyhedgehogsareinspacerightnow.com/

   You attempted to visit a site that is in violation
   of $COMPANY acceptable use guidelines or may pose an
   Information Security threat to you and $COMPANY assets.

OK, just what are the hedgehogs up to now?

Re: How many people are in space right now?

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Post by gabemart » Thu, Sep 26, 2013, 2:19 PM UTC

wldlyinaccurate wrote: post #17

Dear website owners, Please take the time to set up a service like CloudFlare[0]. It's free, and will prevent your site from going down during traffic spikes. There's really no downside. Regards, Frustrated User [0]: https://www.cloudflare.com/

It's not true that there's "no downside" to using CloudFlare. They've had outages in the past which have taken client sites offline [1], for one thing. Speaking personally, I've experienced subtle errors that have disappeared when I've moved my sites off the service.

CloudFlare may well be great for some people, but it's not perfect.

[1] http://blog.cloudflare.com/todays-outage-post-mortem-82515

Re: How many people are in space right now?

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Post by calinet6 » Thu, Sep 26, 2013, 2:33 PM UTC

gabemart wrote: post #33

wldlyinaccurate wrote: post #17

Dear website owners, Please take the time to set up a service like CloudFlare[0]. It's free, and will prevent your site from going down during traffic spikes. There's really no downside. Regards, Frustrated User [0]: https://www.cloudflare.com/

It's not true that there's "no downside" to using CloudFlare. They've had outages in the past which have taken client sites offline [1], for one thing. Speaking personally, I've experienced subtle errors that have disappeared when I've moved my sites off the service. CloudFlare may well be great for some people, but it's not perfect. [1] http://blog.cloudflare.com/todays-outage-post-mortem-82515

Also, if you have a faster server than their infrastructure, it slows you down quite a bit.

Also, it catches bot traffic for a while but then they figure out how to get around it.

Re: How many people are in space right now?

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Post by Peroni » Thu, Sep 26, 2013, 2:35 PM UTC

flexie wrote: post #14

I believe there are 2 Americans in space right now. Speaking of space - in a restricted sense - there are around 2.3 million Americans in prison.

Correct. If you click the image or just scroll down you can see the names.

Re: How many people are in space right now?

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Post by belorn » Thu, Sep 26, 2013, 2:39 PM UTC

hrrsn wrote: post #28

4lun wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The server can still tank from too many requests, static or not.

As it has.

How do you know the site is static?

Re: How many people are in space right now?

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Post by zbyszek » Thu, Sep 26, 2013, 2:46 PM UTC

raldi wrote: post #27

Cool. Now give me a graph over time, so I can see the last date that there was nobody in space.

That would have to be a different URL, like www.howmanypeoplewereinspaceatanygiventimeinthepast.com (sorry, coldcode).

Re: How many people are in space right now?

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Post by minikites » Thu, Sep 26, 2013, 2:49 PM UTC

coldcode wrote: post #30

www.whyarepeoplemakingdomainswithsuchridiculouslengthsthesedays.edu

All the short ones are taken.

Re: How many people are in space right now?

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Post by jacquesm » Thu, Sep 26, 2013, 2:53 PM UTC

wldlyinaccurate wrote: post #17

Dear website owners, Please take the time to set up a service like CloudFlare[0]. It's free, and will prevent your site from going down during traffic spikes. There's really no downside. Regards, Frustrated User [0]: https://www.cloudflare.com/

Just today I went to a site that uses cloudflare and they were down - because of cloudflare. Now I don't doubt that the cloudflare people will be right on top of something like that and will fix it asap but they're not a 100% solution to prevent your site from going down during traffic spikes because sites can and do go down, cloudflare or not so the coincidence with a traffic spike can still happen.

The downside is clear: it's a more complex system, so the mtbf will be lower (now it is the combined downtime of 'you' versus 'you+cloudflare').

Re: How many people are in space right now?

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Post by mkhalil » Thu, Sep 26, 2013, 2:56 PM UTC

richforrester wrote: post #10

Hah. 503 people in space. I must be the only one who finds that funny.

I want to laugh :( explain...