How We Got 10,000 Visitors from Hacker News Within 3 Days and Screwed It Up (kraftblick.com)

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

nck4222 9y ago ↗

Literally the first point of the article:

Part 1: How We Fucked Up

1. No website overload protection

[deleted] 9y ago ↗

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xen2xen1 9y ago ↗

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

SteveNuts 9y ago ↗

Third time's a charm

elchief 9y ago ↗

have you considered hosting on geocities?

Huhty 9y ago ↗

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

NonMathGirl 9y 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_patel 9y 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 9y 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"

NonMathGirl 9y ago ↗

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

sean_patel 9y 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!