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That's unfortunate. My little 512Mb Linode apparently couldn't handle it. It's back up for the moment.

Edit: Scratch that. Resizing to a larger linode now. This got far more traffic than I ever expected it would.

Linode has a maximum packet per second limit set by default on all nodes. You'll need to email them to have them remove the limit for this particular box. They're very responsive and will increase it within a few minutes. No matter how big your instance is, there's probably way too many packets hitting it right now.

Ah. Good to know. This is just running on a personal test box. I'll email them, though I think the wave is over anyway.

Thanks :)

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