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

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

by NonMathGirl • 10 years ago

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runin2k1• 10 years ago

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

nck4222• 10 years ago

Literally the first point of the article:

Part 1: How We Fucked Up

1. No website overload protection

xen2xen1• 10 years ago

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

SteveNuts• 10 years ago

Third time's a charm

elchief• 10 years ago

have you considered hosting on geocities?

Huhty• 10 years ago

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

NonMathGirl2• 10 years ago

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.

sean_patel2• 10 years ago

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.

bananabill• 10 years ago

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"

NonMathGirl2• 10 years ago

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

sean_patel2• 10 years ago

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!

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

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