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Re:Startups: Don't Host Your Blog on Tumblr by charliesome on Sunday January 15, 2012 @09:03PM (#3469036)
> Love the fact that if a post makes the HN front page, we don't have to worry about scaling or downtime.

If you have to worry about scaling or downtime if a blog post hits HN's front page, then I'm afraid that you screwed up really bad somewhere.

Any server should be able to handle that traffic.

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Re:Startups: Don't Host Your Blog on Tumblr by nodesocket on Sunday January 15, 2012 @09:09PM (#3469056)
See: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3451893, scaling Wordpress isn't exactly easy, when running on shared hosting.
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