How We Got 10,000 Visitors from Hacker News Within 3 Days and Screwed It Up

kraftblick.com

11 points·NonMathGirl··11 comments

Ironic that their page crashed again but here's a cached version: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...

Literally the first point of the article:

Part 1: How We Fucked Up

1. No website overload protection

That's right, we made this fuck up for the second time :) In our defence, we didn't expect this post to gain a momentum. Now we are covered.

> we made this fuck up for the second time

You didn't fuck up the 2nd time. You fucked up the 1st time when you decided to use Wordpress.

And the page isn't loading now... 2 for 2!

Third time's a charm

have you considered hosting on geocities?

Meh, Tripod or Angelfire is where it's at.

Add in "We shouldn't put weird skeleton memes right at the top" that's like shorthand for "we aren't saying anything worthwile here"

Thanks for your invaluable insight! It brings a whole new perspective to content marketing.

The post lists "Overload Protection", "Popups" etc for their site overload, but this is the real reason their site crashed.

> http://kraftblick.com/wp-login.php

Wordpress is the only PIG that crashes for as little as 10K visits. Because ever freakin' godman request is a query to the database. No other CMS is this bad. And this is the reason this post also crashed the website. The irony of it all!

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