{"id":2565,"date":"2017-12-24T13:09:54","date_gmt":"2017-12-24T19:09:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/?p=2565"},"modified":"2017-12-22T13:10:18","modified_gmt":"2017-12-22T19:10:18","slug":"hackernews-melted-my-server","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2565","title":{"rendered":"Hackernews melted my server"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My post about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2555\">Founding Engineers<\/a> caught the attention of some folks on Hacker News, which is kinda like a focused subreddit for tech folks.\u00a0 There were some <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=15972357\">great comments<\/a>.\u00a0 My server melted down, though, and some folks had to read the google cached version.\u00a0 I think the post peaked at around #25 on the front page.\u00a0 Can&#8217;t imagine what a pounding the number one post gets.<\/p>\n<p>I was able to restart my web server later in the day (the post unfortunately happened at the same time I was doing a release of The Food Corridor application), and saw from my web stats that I had as many people visit on that one day as I get in a typical week.\u00a0 That was only the folks that my stats system was able to capture, so I&#8217;m guessing there were a lot more.<\/p>\n<p>I have thought for a long time about making my wordpress site publish to s3, using a tool like <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/simply-static\/\">simply static<\/a>.\u00a0 I haven&#8217;t done that yet, but was able to leverage WP Super Cache&#8217;s CDN integration to serve up the static assets of the blog from CloudFront, AWS&#8217;s CDN.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jimmyscode.com\/wp-super-cache-with-cloudfront-setup\/\">This post<\/a> was very helpful.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My post about Founding Engineers caught the attention of some folks on Hacker News, which is kinda like a focused subreddit for tech folks.\u00a0 There were some great comments.\u00a0 My [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aws","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2565"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2567,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2565\/revisions\/2567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}