It would be interesting to hear from the author how the server is handling HackerNews traffic

Hi, author here. While building this thing, the Node server had the tendency to drop out. I'm monitoring it with God (http://god.rubyforge.org/) now, so it restarts whenever anything goes wrong.

I'm genuinely impressed by how it's holding out now. :)

Could you elaborate on this at all? What kind of traffic are you getting (max concurrent requests handled perhaps)? Any idea why Node dropped out?

What kind of traffic have you gotten in the last hour?

assuming you proxy requests to the different processes. that's not what those examples are doing - they simply share a server socket and let the kernel load balance incoming connections over them.

here's what it looks like for those without web socket browsers: http://img.skitch.com/20100701-1hsg3n1g7akjutqe7h63g4n4e.png

...why do you not /want/ it to be true?

Wow! Zed invented the HTTP proxy!

No! I invented trolling!