What happens traffic wise when a post hits #1 on Hacker News? Here are my stats

[standrews]

http://purde.net/2015/01/hacker-news-number-one-post-stats/

[blackdogie]

Did you take any special measures for protecting your blog, like caching ? Or are you running beefy enough hardware ?

[standrews → blackdogie]

I was able to get hold of my hosting provider (virtuaal.com) and upgrade to their biggest package in about 15 mins.

[afoot]

Looking forward to the 'What happens when a post about a post that hits #1 on Hacker News, hits #1 on Hacker News?' post.

[standrews → afoot]

great idea :)

[chrisan]

Ty for sharing. Tiny FYI, on mobile the sidebar, even while collapsed, is distracting. Thankfully there is reader view.

[standrews → chrisan]

Indeed, need to update that theme.. Glad the reader view is there.

[BasDirks]

"ie. my Mom and a dozen bots" in the graph is priceless.