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Comment on Ask HN: How do you prepare for “HN Hug of death”?

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Caching/make the homepage static if possible. I had a project some years ago that had an elastic search backend, adding redis for caching allowed it to run without problems with up to 1000 concurrent users (position 1-10 on HN if I remember right). As someone below pointed out, the majority would want to have a look, not create accounts.

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