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I am amused by the site being down. Going back to WordPress, he presumably forgot that a cache plugin is pretty much required. Not that Jekyll is perfect, but that's one area where it's pretty much impossible to beat.

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I actually have wp-supercache enabled. However, the site was only running on 512MB ram :( Getting featured on HN is a lot different than daily traffic. A static site would not have saved me here.

A static site would have saved you here, particularly if you are using something like nginx. Even with apache, you'd still be fine.

Wordpress cacheing HN traffic should do fine too. There's something else going on here.

Indeed. I've been on the HN front page a couple of times with Jekyll generated sites (http://os-blog.com is one). Hosted on an Amazon micro instance (613 mb) and served by nginx, none of my sites have broken a sweat under the increased traffic.

HN traffic isn't really that much. I was watching the stats under the new Google Analytics realtime mode and the site was averaging about 3 - 6 requests per second.

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