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

Posted by NonMathGirl on Wednesday January 11, 2017 @03:10PM
from the kraftblick.com dept.

http://kraftblick.com/blog/hacker-news-front-page/

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Re:How We Got 10,000 Visitors from Hacker News Within 3 Days... by runin2k1 on Wednesday January 11, 2017 @03:20PM (#13377168)

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

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Re:How We Got 10,000 Visitors from Hacker News Within 3 Days... by nck4222 on Wednesday January 11, 2017 @03:23PM (#13377195)

Literally the first point of the article:

Part 1: How We Fucked Up

1. No website overload protection

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Re:How We Got 10,000 Visitors from Hacker News Within 3 Days... by NonMathGirl on Wednesday January 11, 2017 @03:38PM (#13377295)

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.

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Re:How We Got 10,000 Visitors from Hacker News Within 3 Days... by sean_patel on Wednesday January 11, 2017 @05:00PM (#13377890)

> 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.

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Re:How We Got 10,000 Visitors from Hacker News Within 3 Days... by xen2xen1 on Wednesday January 11, 2017 @03:21PM (#13377184)

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

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Re:How We Got 10,000 Visitors from Hacker News Within 3 Days... by SteveNuts on Wednesday January 11, 2017 @03:25PM (#13377210)

Third time's a charm

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Re:How We Got 10,000 Visitors from Hacker News Within 3 Days... by elchief on Wednesday January 11, 2017 @03:29PM (#13377239)

have you considered hosting on geocities?

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Re:How We Got 10,000 Visitors from Hacker News Within 3 Days... by Huhty on Wednesday January 11, 2017 @03:30PM (#13377249)

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

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Re:How We Got 10,000 Visitors from Hacker News Within 3 Days... by bananabill on Wednesday January 11, 2017 @03:41PM (#13377321)

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"

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Re:How We Got 10,000 Visitors from Hacker News Within 3 Days... by NonMathGirl on Wednesday January 11, 2017 @03:47PM (#13377356)

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

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Re:How We Got 10,000 Visitors from Hacker News Within 3 Days... by sean_patel on Wednesday January 11, 2017 @04:58PM (#13377869)

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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