How we got 100,000 visitors without noticing

Re:How we got 100,000 visitors without noticing by jasonkester on Sunday October 03, 2010 @06:15AM (#1752461)

This is exactly what should happen when your low-traffic site suddenly gets 50k visits in a day: Absolutely Nothing. Kudos to the historio.us guys for building something that can actually handle a little spike in traffic without falling over.

We see so many sites come through here that are showing 500 errors by the time they get halfway up the front page that you'd think nobody knew how to do this stuff anymore.

Great job of ticking off the basics, guys. Building on top of that foundation, you shouldn't have any trouble scaling out when this sort of traffic starts becoming a daily occurrence.

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Re:How we got 100,000 visitors without noticing by StavrosK on Sunday October 03, 2010 @06:34AM (#1752478)

Thank you! To give credit where it's due, buro9 from HN urged us to implement the Varnish caching feature for cached pages, so we had it written but disabled because we didn't think it was going to get that much traffic. We hadn't turned it on for the first 30k visitors and the server was still doing great, but when we saw it we just switched it on and load dropped to nothing.

Serious amounts of love for Varnish here.

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