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While the sentiment is clear, I had an uncached Wordpress site on shared hosting withstand #2 or #3 (I forget where exactly it peaked). HN isn't all that huge a traffic deliverer. It's just about the quality of that traffic.
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I beg to differ. I changed a lot of stuff which was recommended by HN. What errors do you see? The main thing I didn't change was I kept the open source stuff highlighted because the vast majority of people visiting the site will want to find those resources.
"Get Perks at Local Restaurants & Bars" shouldn't be title cased. It should be "early beta" not "early Beta". The ellipsis after the "etc" should be a period. There are many others too. There were a ton of comments that were incredibly constructive and valid. I appreciate it's your site and you're not beholden to anybody, but almost all the criticism that was given was ignored. Also, you can edit comments on HN rathe…
I did make a lot of changes suggested. I changed my about page a lot, and made copy changes to much of the stuff on the homepage. Keep in mind that this site is still a work in progress and I got caught up with other stuff the rest of the week. I will probably make more of the HN suggested changes later. I'm just saying that not all recommendations fit in with the author's view on something.
Of course tweaking web servers and playing with your stack can be fun, but if you just want to build your site and let someone else handle the back-end performance and scaling issues, then there are solutions for that.
You're doing everything wrong then. I had a website going through 6000 concurrent users sometimes and which was hosted on a very cheap mutualised server! I didn't realize so many people had no idea about simple caching techniques.
You have no dynamic content and your website crash at 200~ concurrent users? You're doing everything wrong then. I had a website going through 6000 concurrent users sometimes and which was hosted on a very cheap mutualised server! I didn't realize so many people had no idea about simple caching techniques.
When I'm building an app I will use memcached with redis. But this post was just about getting a host environment/workflow for situations in which you want the ease of development that server side languages provide (shared code includes, etc.) and not have to deal with things like caching.
EDIT: it's back, one or two refreshes later.
Yep, static is the way to go if that's all you need. I didn't even hit #1 on HN but got 5,000+ page views in a few hours. All on a 128MB RAM VPS: http://linuxterm.com/static-sites-for-fun-and-savings.html
So, it's down for me right now. Back to square one? EDIT: it's back, one or two refreshes later.
If you're on Wordpress, install WP Supercache. That's 80% of the solution, right there. Install equivalent whole-page caching for any other framework or system and tell your HTTP server how to pick it up; that should leave you prepared for hundreds of RPS.
We're at the stage where people are posting the equivalent of "how I survived skipping lunch". It's not 1997 any more, tens of thousands of visits is a link from a moderately popular twitter account or a medium-size metropolitan newspaper.
I'm sorry to seem so uncharitable. I'm just not sure what value these posts add.