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Yes and reddit is down as well. Came to hn to check that.

Reminds me of when Slashdot would go down, and all the slashdot-like sites would immediately fold under the excess traffic.

Same here, if reddit goes down, everyone goes to other time-wasters like HN and those begin to get overloaded.

My very first job out of school included running sendmail.org. Rule number one was "make sure we can handle all of Slashdot's traffic".

Ah, back when major sites would fail to a slashdotting and someone running freeBSD with a text-only site would survive just fine.

> and someone running freeBSD with a text-only site would survive just fine.

Haha yep! That was our trick! FreeBSD FTW. That box ended up having an uptime over 1000 days before we had to power it down to move it.

> before we had to power it down to move it.

Reminds me of a story where someone had to move a server physically without downtime. The story is on Reddit, but if you really want to read it now there's an archived version. And there's a Hacker News thread too.

https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/i3xbjb/rant_sorta...

https://web.archive.org/web/20221224195636/https://www.reddi...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24059243

That was definitely a thing back then. I've had sites slashdotted several times and never had any issues using FreeBSD and static-ish content and/or compiled C cgi's w/mysql. It also helped that I worked in networking and always had (sometimes just) enough bandwidth available.

Then there was that time in my Atari 800 was slashdotted. The Atari could serve several hits/s on it's 9600 baud interface but the 3com CS-210 terminal server would crash about every 6 hours. https://kl.net/atari/

Probably the most surprising (for it's time) hits/s I had to deal with was when Art Bell had my solar status monitor gif's inlined right on his homepage for a while in 1997-98. It was pretty wild when he would say on the air "Go to my website right now!"

I've been messing with fastly for the first time ever. Reddit uses fastly. My bad, guys.

https://www.redditstatus.com/incidents/1xslswydctkp

Reddit is dead

Reddit's dead and HN is super-slow. Took about 10 clicks and a couple of mins to even get a reply box going.

If you don't need to comment, go incognito so you can get cached versions of HN pages. Much, much faster.

Same. First assumption is AWS but not seeing related reports.

AWS historically has had issues detecting if itself is having issues.

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