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tonylampada on July 22, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Goodbye Google Analytics. Hello Piwik

Author here. Seems like Hackernews traffic "DDOS'ed" the original blog. I made a clone of the post in my personal blog (hosted on wordpress). http://dicasdolampada.wordpress.com/2013/07/22/goodbye-googl...

tonylampada on July 22, 2013 [–]

My thanks to the hackernews folks who changed the original link (Y)

laurent123456 on July 23, 2013 | [–]

Ironically, could the DDOS actually be because of Piwik? With the sudden increase in traffic, it's probably generating a massive amount of data and overloading the database.

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