Always build scalable web presences.
I hope to once make the frontpage on HN. Not for the fame or anything, just to check how scalable my blog really is. :)
What I've Learned So Far as a Programmer
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#12"HTTP 500 Internal Server Error
Most likely causes: The website has a programming error."
Thanks IE, you really know how to make me laugh.
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#13"Error establishing a database connection" The greatest knowledge by experience for all for us in devops.
It is a very important lesson. Caching is your friend.
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#14This is one of the funniest headlines I've read considering the site seemingly crashed. I'm hoping the punchline was actually "Error establishing a database connection" but I doubt it.
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#16"Error establishing a database connection" The greatest knowledge by experience for all for us in devops.
Has anyone measured how much traffic can being on the front page of HN generate?
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#17Everyone is so smug here, wow. If you have a little web presence with 5 visits per day, of which 3 are bots, you don't cache, you don't use AWS or any of the big services, you just spin up a tiny Linux machine with a LAMP stack and that's it.
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#18Everyone is so smug here, wow. If you have a little web presence with 5 visits per day, of which 3 are bots, you don't cache, you don't use AWS or any of the big services, you just spin up a tiny Linux machine with a LAMP stack and that's it.
Reads more like good-natured ribbing imo. We've all been there.
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#19While Hacker News hugs the site to death: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...
I think there's more wisdom to be found in the error page than the original article
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#20"HTTP 500 Internal Server Error Most likely causes: The website has a programming error." Thanks IE, you really know how to make me laugh.
Needs to dispatch a team of highly skilled monkeys.