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That moment a HN reference to your site causes a full scale DDoS takedown.
by csvan 11y ago
That moment a HN reference to your site causes a full scale DDoS takedown.
- TazeTSchnitzel 11y agoThe hug of death. I do wonder if this wouldn't be preventable with a better-designed web. Why fetch static media from the source anyway? You could grab it from your peers.
- cldellow 11y agoSounds like you want IPFS: https://ipfs.io/ https://ipfs.io/
- vezzy-fnord 11y agoThere's plenty of interest in replacing transfer and naming, but I don't see a lot in developing a post-WWW hypertext system. Are there any projects or did the WWW and HTTP kill off research in that area?
- idlewords 11y agoYou just need to configure your server right. A static site can take a ridiculous amount of traffic even on toy hardware.
- syntheticnature 11y agoI suspect in this case, the fact that the static page links to a dynamic one on the same server, right up top, and urges you to go there helps not at all.
- goalieca 11y agoWe used to call this slashdotting.. and bots had to be made to mirror sits about to be linked.