Ask HN: What’s the biggest traffic spike you got?

[alexkon]

Tell us your story. Please do share even if your site was still small at the time. It’s always relative to your usual traffic figures.

Where did the crowd come from? How many requests per second did it reach at peak? How did your site handle the load? How long did the surge last? How many unique visitors came to your site during the surge? How did this affect your business?

[sjs382]

When it was announced here, https://artpacks.org peaked at about 100 requests per second. It's a site that really triggers nostalgia and encourages a lot of browsing.

The site held up very well on a $5 DigitalOcean box, due to the fact that it mostly served small, static files (only routing and archive-unzipping happen server-side). All templates are created on the front-end.

Edit: Just checked and I was wrong—it's a $10/mo DO VPS.

Edit 2: Oops, I forgot to mention that an app launched the same day, which used the same API endpoints as the main site.