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Probably, before submitting this link everything worked fine, but now I can't even load the page.

Didn't knew that so many people on HN look into the "new" tab, that it could crash a website.

Here is an archive link:

https://web.archive.org/web/20240802013632/https://ewritable...

We call it the hug of death.

HN H(ug)o(f)D(eath)

I'm always surprised when I see this happen. I could see a quick surge in traffic locking up the server, likely at the database, but I'd also expect that to sort itself out quickly with a reasonable infrastructure setup.

I'm seeing a 503 here now, maybe they ran into a hard cap on hosting bandwidth?

I think it is just a news site about e-ink devices. Maybe just falling over is a reasonably failure mode and they’ve set up enough infrastructure? The site will be there in a day or soC for people that are really interested, most likely.

I think it has to do with the default value of max_connections in MySQL being somewhat low, I think it's like 150 or something.

> of being slashdotted

haha, you're old... :-)

Yes, yes I am. Now get off my lawn! :-)