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Hugged to death already?

Sorry, had to go up a few sizes on DigitalOcean

Curious: what tier were you using and what tier did you move up to? In case I ever get to the frontpage, I'd like to be prepared :)

And usually, what is it that causes outages like HN/reddit's hug of death? Number of open sockets / file descriptors? RAM? CPU? Network congestion?

If you have a static site, being on top of reddit/HN will barely be visible on the smallest instance you can find.

Yup.