<p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Hello family,</p><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">I wrote about some of the mistakes I made while doing a HN launch for my new startup <a href="http://www.cucumbertown.com/" target="_blank">Cucumbertown</a></p>
<p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><a href="http://www.gigpeppers.com/post-mortem-of-a-failed-hackernews-launch/" target="_blank">http://www.gigpeppers.com/post-mortem-of-a-failed-hackernews-launch/</a></p>
<p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">It has references to Nginx and how making a simple mistake in config cost me a server crash that lasted for 20-30 minutes.</p><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<b>Hope this will benefit some of the new Nginx users who are trying to scale.</b></p><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">On the positive side, if not for Nginx we wouldn’t have lasted 10 minutes of peak traffic at 1000 users/sec+. Besides that, this blog <a href="http://gigpeppers.com/" target="_blank">gigpeppers.com</a> is hosted on a 128MB single core <a href="http://prgrmr.com/" target="_blank">prgrmr.com</a> machine and has been serving peak <a href="http://hnrankings.info/4847665/" target="_blank">HackerNews front page traffic for almost 17 hours now</a>, thanks to Nginx.</p>
<p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4847665" target="_blank">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4847665</a></p><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
Thank you Igor, Maxim, Antonio, Velentin and all other for this software marvel.</p><div>- Cherian</div><br>