The site is Incredimazing (one of my pet projects) and the main page which attracted the web’s attention was Earth at Night (cool, eh).
This time the traffic came from Fark, reddit and various other sources.
This averages out to about 10.6 requests / second, but the traffic was very bursty—probably 600-700k of the pageviews came within a span of 4-5 hours when first hitting fark/reddit/etc.
Note: the complete setup that runs incredimazing + a bevy of other sites runs about $400. If my math from this post were to hold true, it would mean hardware costs for a site such as this could be as little as 0.5% (half a percent). But… but… rails doesn’t scale! :P
Btw – this post is an update to this article which covered the initial digging.
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