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Re:Interviewing at Google, Facebook, Foursquare, Dropbox, Fo... by jamalkhan on Tuesday May 22, 2012 @04:37PM (#4009832)
everytime I try the link I get a timeout request!
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Re:Interviewing at Google, Facebook, Foursquare, Dropbox, Fo... by greyboy on Tuesday May 22, 2012 @04:38PM (#4009838)
Cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?hl=en&biw=1...
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Re:Interviewing at Google, Facebook, Foursquare, Dropbox, Fo... by squarecat on Tuesday May 22, 2012 @06:14PM (#4010385)
Text-only is teh quickness: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:haufler...
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Re:Interviewing at Google, Facebook, Foursquare, Dropbox, Fo... by shaufler on Tuesday May 22, 2012 @05:13PM (#4010027)
the traffic spike from HN crashed my server. i'm resizing my linode instance now, so the site should hopefully be up again in a few minutes
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Re:Interviewing at Google, Facebook, Foursquare, Dropbox, Fo... by luigi on Tuesday May 22, 2012 @05:32PM (#4010150)
Caching is your friend:

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-super-cache/

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Re:Interviewing at Google, Facebook, Foursquare, Dropbox, Fo... by socialist_coder on Tuesday May 22, 2012 @06:11PM (#4010371)
I also have a Wordpress blog on a Linode and I'm curious if you tried any caching plugins or Cloudflare before resizing?
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Re:Interviewing at Google, Facebook, Foursquare, Dropbox, Fo... by Killswitch on Tuesday May 22, 2012 @04:40PM (#4009848)
Wordpress will do that to you when your site gets any type of traffic.
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