It's likely a result of a cheap host server not being able to handle the traffic. Not a reflection of OP's programming abilities.
Yep. That's exactly it, it's on a cheap server and too much traffic. Anybody experience this before and/or know some quick solutions?
You mentioned Heroku in your post. Why did you decide not to host there?
It is hosted on Heroku:
➜ ~ dig -x 75.101.163.44 +short
proxy.heroku.com.
Good question. The wordpress blog (webstartup.me) is on a cheap server. Freelancify is hosted on Heroku.
jekyll on S3 is a pretty killer combo for a cheap blog that scales infinitely and automatically. You'll probably like it, especially since you're a ruby guy.
thank you for the suggestion, will look into that. The popularity of the posts def caught me off-guard..