Re:Docker operations slowing down on AWS
by Deimorz on Wednesday July 26, 2017 @03:34PM
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Shouldn't be anything incredibly high. I haven't seen any recent traffic info for HN, but a couple of years ago dang posted some numbers here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9219581
So at that point it was 2.6M views per day, which means HN itself was getting about 30 views per second. If you look at the 200k uniques instead (which might make more sense since any individual person will probably only click through once), that's about 2 unique visitors per second. So even if HN has grown a ton in the time since that post, I'd be surprised if it sent more than about 5 hits/second to anything.
Re:Docker operations slowing down on AWS
by geofft on Wednesday July 26, 2017 @05:00PM
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Hah, the fact that HN itself is a single server (behind Cloudflare, these days) should be enough proof that anything linked to by HN is unlikely to need more than a single server behind a caching CDN.
So at that point it was 2.6M views per day, which means HN itself was getting about 30 views per second. If you look at the 200k uniques instead (which might make more sense since any individual person will probably only click through once), that's about 2 unique visitors per second. So even if HN has grown a ton in the time since that post, I'd be surprised if it sent more than about 5 hits/second to anything.