The fact that the site immediately goes down after it hits HN frontpage of course is a bit embarrassing. Sorry, and thanks checking it out. (here is the feed URL in case you wanna subscribe http://www.meshedsociety.com/feed).
Checkout Octopress. It generates HTML pages from markdown and you can host it in e.g. S3. When I hit HN or /r/programming homepage a few times in the past, there were no scaling / performance issues and I paid maybe $0.5 for S3 for that day.
That kind of supports your point though.
You should install a cache plugin. :)
Yep thanks I did that yesterday after my hoster recommended that.