http://shkspr.mobi/blog/2012/11/whats-the-front-page-of-hack...
Articles on the front page receive roughly 700 page views per hour.
Obviously, depends very much on time of day, attractiveness of the title etc.
Articles on the front page receive roughly 700 page views per hour.
Obviously, depends very much on time of day, attractiveness of the title etc.
I can't image how you'd write a web server that couldn't cope with that low load (actually I can but not for a mostly static site like this).
Even if we consider that it would be an additional page view every 5 seconds, this is barely believable that this would put the server under a stress load.
Either this one is wildly more popular or maybe something else is going on as well.
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The site has trouble because we have devoted our meager resources to other tasks. If someone wants to donate beefier servers I'd gladly replace the aging, asthmatic machines that comprise 9cloud.
It's been my experience, however, that people generally don't want to spend that thousand dollars.