How Hacker News and FreshDesk led me to quit my job and launch my own startup

Re:How Hacker News and FreshDesk led me to quit my job and l... by grey-area on Tuesday September 29, 2015 @10:30AM (#10296519)

In the short term, switching most pages to static html would do wonders for speed and let you work out a long-term strategy. Static pages behind something like nginx should handle any load.

Your problem might not be your host (thought Godaddy is unlikely to be good), as much as a lack of caching on whatever website software you're using (WP?).

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Re:How Hacker News and FreshDesk led me to quit my job and l... by brianwawok on Tuesday September 29, 2015 @10:54AM (#10296735)

You can slap a caching plugins on wordpress and make 99.99% of requests never hit the database... usually takes you from being able to serve 10 requests per core to a few 100.... (Not as good as static HTML, but I am not sure he needs the million pages per second yet)

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Re:How Hacker News and FreshDesk led me to quit my job and l... by grey-area on Tuesday September 29, 2015 @11:43AM (#10297111)

Yes sure, by short-term I meant for the next few hours - static html might be an easier option when the server is on fire. Think of it as a poor man's caching :)

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Re:How Hacker News and FreshDesk led me to quit my job and l... by lenin1234 on Tuesday September 29, 2015 @10:55AM (#10296738)

That definitely sounds like a good option. Let me do that now

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