There's just no reason to have a web site that goes down when HN viewers go to it. I run wiki.luajit.org on a VM, using Gollum. We got hit by HN a while back.

There's just no reason to have a web site that goes down when HN viewers go to it. I run wiki.luajit.org on a VM, using Gollum. We got hit by HN a while back. CPU went from 1% to 2%. People saying "CPU is commodity" tend to write software which uses all available CPU... for little purpose. Heck, I worked at a company which did just that. "CPU / memory / disk is commodity, use it." And they did! Soon enough, all CPU / memory / disk was in use, and they had to go back and re-architect their software so that it wasn't crap. It would have been cheaper to do it right in the first place. But religious beliefs about engineering over-rode actual engineering.