Facestat scales fast for Yahoo traffic

Lukas Biewald has an awesome post up on his rather adventurous weekend. He woke up Sunday morning to find his site, Facestat, on the front page of Yahoo picked up from an earlier link in the Wall Street Journal.

I’ve been hit by Digg and Slashdot before, but this spike in traffic was like nothing I’d ever seen.

He goes on to explain how the Facestat team handled the situation and the frantic day spent readying more servers. We spoke with them Sunday evening as they were working. Our hats are off to them, excellent job handling a huge traffic wave and lots of pressure.

Slicehost has scaled up as fast as we’ve needed them to.

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