Does anyone have a mirror? The link is down.
Nothing against the OP, but I don't know how in 2021, websites can't handle a few dozen visitors at once. Even a $5 digital ocean machine can handle thousands simultaneously without going down.
Nothing against the OP, but I don't know how in 2021, websites can't handle a few dozen visitors at once. Even a $5 digital ocean machine can handle thousands simultaneously without going down.
https://nicklafferty.com/blog/what-happens-when-you-re-on-th...
https://thehftguy.com/2017/09/26/hitting-hacker-news-front-p...
I usually go through the comments, then drop these URIs on my calendar and check them a couple of days later. By then the discussions have matured and the site is up and running (perhaps even the posts have been correct/enhanced with the HN comments).
https://web.archive.org/web/20201026180211/https://mybyways.... shows that it's built using Grav, which is fine I guess. I don't know how well that holds up to high traffic, but if he's not using any specific caching then I think just about anything could fall over in the face of the HN hug of death. And until one has been HN'd (or slashdotted) then they really don't think about such things most of the time. I know I didn't. Then, my WP site got slashdotted. It stayed online with some quick work, but that was almost a decade ago. I suspect that the OP is doing a similar scramble now.
The problem is that it's often not a slow degradation, it's an exponential one. Things will be going fine, and then things will look a little slower, and then things will completely fall apart. This is because the few parts that actual lock and cause contention stack, and problems beget more problems. See also virtual memory in servers. Often, that point at which your server needs virtual memory is the point at which it slows everything down more that more and more requests stack up (because virtual memory is slow), needing more memory, and you get a spiral of death in many cases.