“groovy mother...”

A blog post I wrote last night ended up on the front page of Reddit this morning. As of 2pm, I have had more unique visitors today than I had in January-March of this year combined!

My stack of nginx, Apache, Django and memcache all kicked in exactly as designed, and handled the flood of visitors without breaking (much) of a sweat, on a $25-a-month virtual server.

(Hat tip to Simon Willison for blogging about using this architecture. and inspiring me to preemptively deploy it on my own blog)