--- title: "How I Survived the Front Page of Hacker News Without Crashing My Server" url: https://daily.dev/posts/how-i-survived-the-front-page-of-hacker-news-without-crashing-my-server-5c82mpnw0 source_url: https://danielpetrica.com/surviving-hacker-news-front-page/ type: article source: "Daniel Petrica" author: "Daniel, Petrica Andrei-Daniel" published: 2026-03-31T13:40:04.873Z updated: 2026-04-01T10:00:58.900Z tags: ["infrastructure", "docker", "cloudflare"] reading_time: 4 upvotes: 0 comments: 0 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # How I Survived the Front Page of Hacker News Without Crashing My Server **[Daniel Petrica](https://daily.dev/sources/danielpetrica)** · [@danielpetrica](https://daily.dev/danielpetrica) · 4 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A personal account of how a self-hosted Ghost CMS blog survived a Hacker News front-page spike with 194,000 requests in a single day. The key was a two-layer caching setup: Cloudflare as a CDN/proxy with 'cache everything' rules, and properly configured Ghost cache headers in Docker Compose. With 94% of requests served from Cloudflare's edge cache, the origin server (a 4-core ARM machine running ~24 self-hosted services via Docker Compose and Traefik) never went down. The post ends with a brief TL;DR and a freelance consulting pitch. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [How We Cached Laravel News at the Edge with Fast Laravel](https://daily.dev/posts/how-we-cached-laravel-news-at-the-edge-with-fast-laravel-rbgw6huba) · Laravel News · 5 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#infrastructure](https://daily.dev/tags/infrastructure), [#docker](https://daily.dev/tags/docker), [#cloudflare](https://daily.dev/tags/cloudflare) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/how-i-survived-the-front-page-of-hacker-news-without-crashing-my-server-5c82mpnw0)