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Kyle Shank
Personal blog · kyleshank.com/storiescultureprogramming
Kyle Shank's personal blog at kyleshank.com covers culture and programming. Since 2011, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-20, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this post on surviving traffic spikes from the Hacker News front page. The single comment discusses hosting options such as Jekyll, GitHub Pages, pen.io, MediaTemple and S3.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
An attempt to put thoughts into words.
What Hacker News says?
The Jekyll recommendation is a great one. For quick one-off articles something like pen.io is great, as well. And GitHub Pages are just fantastic if you didn't know already :) In my experience, MediaTemple handles traffic spikes remarkably well. Maybe not ideal for the super-techies, but running WordPress on it with a caching plugin handles traffic pretty well at the $20 / month plan. And using S3 to serve static si…
Comment linking /
on “Bulletproof your blog – survive the Hacker News effect”Submitted My plan is to be on my wife's plan as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted VHS to S3 (w/ HTML5) as a story · 1 points
HN discussion