This was not what I was expecting

[andrewducker]

So, my random thought about javascript led to my second post this morning. And I wondered if there'd be any interesting comments from the geeks over on Hacker News, so I chucked a link over there.

Which then got me 145 comments, and was upvoted 126 times. In fact, it's still number 17 on their front page, 10 hours later.

Which got me more pageviews than I've ever had before:
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It's at times like this that I'm glad I don't have to run this stuff myself, but can offload it all to our Russian hosts...

(I don't have the stats from Google Analytics yet. Looking forward to checking those out tomorrow.)

And no, this doesn't make me feel any more important. I'm kinda boggled, to be honest. I was expecting 5-10 comments, not multiple threads of discussion going on.

Comments

[robhu.livejournal.com]

I had a #1 post on HN once myself, it was a link to a HTML page I made with a 800MB MPEG4 video file on it...

[andrewducker]

Ouch. Did your bandwidth bill go through the roof?

[robhu.livejournal.com]

No, I cleverly put the actual video in my ebi.ac.uk home directory (~slowley). EBI have a 10gb fibre optic link to JANET because we're the main FTP site for most of the biological databases in the world. I doubt the extra traffic even got noticed anywhere here :)

[pete stevens (from livejournal.com)]

My upside-down-internet page first went viral and I had roughly 800k hits in one afternoon. Handily my webserver coped easily despite being 2002 era hardware that's substantially slower than my current laptop :-) My upstream suffered a bit though (we only had 100Mbits at the time rather than the multiple gigabits we have now).