tahoecoder

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by tahoecoder 13y ago
Go to French Pass on the northern tip of the south island. It's a beautiful and remote spot.
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by tahoecoder 13y ago
Creating a daily average of concurrent visits isn't relevant. Servers don't take an average of all the possible future hours of complete inactivity when they are serving up requests. The post was only up at the top for a couple of hours bef
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by tahoecoder 13y ago
Lots of people are misunderstanding that chartbeat figure. It's not 287 visits in a 45 minute window. These are visitors who are currently interacting with your site. Some are idle but most aren't.
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by tahoecoder 13y ago
Knowing how many people are on your pages at any one time isn't a meaningless number. You're right in the sense that it's not a great way to assess quantitative site load. I just used that number in the blog to give a qualitative assessment
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by tahoecoder 13y ago
Not sure why I have to defend the number. I think any #1 post would see 287 concurrents. http://imgur.com/yfn9Dnd (look at the 30 day max). I was a little off, it was 282 concurrents.
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by tahoecoder 13y ago
My main site, AppRaptor, isn't on octopress. Just this blog. I agree with you 100% that the problem was apache + mod_php. Nginx would have probably been better. I decided to try out this s3 + cloudfront solution instead, though. I'll take a
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by tahoecoder 13y ago
Fair enough. I think we are all sick of hearing about WP Supercache. My post was about middleman + s3 + cloudfront, however. I think this combination of tools isn't as well known and some people could benefit from knowing about them.
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by tahoecoder 13y ago
A lot of people on HN are still learning things like this. I understand that a post like this doesn't add any value to someone like you who probably knows this stuff inside and out, but I'm grateful for posts that give me insight into new t
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by tahoecoder 13y ago
Must be your internet. My server load time is hanging steady at 455 ms.
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by tahoecoder 13y ago
The issue is a static site shouldn't even need to use caching techniques. When I'm building an app I will use memcached with redis. But this post was just about getting a host environment/workflow for situations in which you want the ease o
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by tahoecoder 13y ago
Fixed those errors. Thanks. I did make a lot of changes suggested. I changed my about page a lot, and made copy changes to much of the stuff on the homepage. Keep in mind that this site is still a work in progress and I got caught up with o
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by tahoecoder 13y ago
Also, it's unreasonable to expect the author to make every change which is recommended. Some things are judgement calls. I really appreciated the feedback of HN and acted on most things suggested, but not everything.
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by tahoecoder 13y ago
I beg to differ. I changed a lot of stuff which was recommended by HN. What errors do you see? The main thing I didn't change was I kept the open source stuff highlighted because the vast majority of people visiting the site will want to fi
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Making a site that can handle #1 on Hacker News(blog.appraptor.com)
23 points by tahoecoder 13y ago|46 comments
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by tahoecoder 13y ago
My site made it to #1 on hacker news last wednesday for a couple of hours. It peaked at 287 concurrents. Unfortunately, I wasn't expecting that kind of surge and only had it on a small linode, so it couldn't handle the traffic. Since then,
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by tahoecoder 13y ago
Thanks for the link. That was a really useful article for me.
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by tahoecoder 13y ago
Thanks for those resources. Didn't know about them and they look really useful.
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by tahoecoder 13y ago
It's not a wordpress site.
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by tahoecoder 13y ago
Yeah, I supposed more people would just be interested in the free stuff so I made it easier for them to find it. My rationale was if somebody liked my work then they wouldn't mind searching a bit more for the hire me link. Perhaps I should
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by tahoecoder 13y ago
Excellent points. I've mainly been working remotely, but I am also willing to travel to the bay area to visit clients (might even move there soon). I will make some changes to that page to include my skype contact as well.
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by tahoecoder 13y ago
Yeah, good call. I wasn't expecting this kind of surge so I didn't plan ahead.
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by tahoecoder 13y ago
Thanks for the firefox heads up. I'll look into that. I'm embarrassed about the grammar issues. Two people have now commented about that. I have been writing a lot of the copy late at night. (part of me was expecting nobody to actually see
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by tahoecoder 13y ago
I prefer developing in ruby/rails. I just put this site up on my small linode because I didn't need to do anything dynamic with it. The linode was already configured for PHP so I was lazy and just went with that. Might move it to Heroku aft
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by tahoecoder 13y ago
Yeah, sorry. In retrospect I should have put this site up on heroku.
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by tahoecoder 13y ago
Thanks for the well thought out feedback. Good call on making the "hire me" the focus in the nav. I'll make those changes. Sorry for the performance right now.
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by tahoecoder 13y ago
I have my gmail address and cell number up there as well. Guess I should make them more prominent.
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by tahoecoder 13y ago
Sorry for the slow load times. I put this site on a small linode and wasn't expecting this kind of surge. Trying to optimize apache right now.
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Starting a consulting business. Can I get some feedback on my new site?(appraptor.com)
32 points by tahoecoder 13y ago|49 comments
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by tahoecoder 13y ago
Do you need to upload a resume for this to work? I signed up a while back but didn't hear anything from them.
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by tahoecoder 13y ago
You, apparently, aren't getting a whole facebook feed full of baby photos. It gets old fast. People really embrace this whole "circle of life" motif.

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