Ask HN: How big a server hit is frontpaging HN?

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Every day a couple of sites I click are down after hitting the HN front page.

Can anyone who's been there, done that, give a ballpark for the total hits / hits per second they saw? It would be interesting to know.

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I've had one front page (#8!) to my WP powered blog, one time. It was a huge increase in my otherwise very small traffic. Big numbers (for me). Over the 24 h period it was over 50k page views.

I run this blog on two Linode 1G offerings. One host for MySQL and one for Apache/PHP.

Neither server noticed, I didn't even get a CPU or network load notification from Linode.

So, from my experience, it was a big view-metric spike but resources and response times held in place from a simple, cheap, two-server setup.

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