> At this point there might be nothing the OP can do except wait until the initial hump of traffic has died down: ifthe server really is completely bogged down

> At this point there might be nothing the OP can do except wait until the initial hump of traffic has died down: ifthe server really is completely bogged down he may not even be able to open SSH session to make any config changes. I actually did some testing at that moment, before I edited the part you have quoted (I added this later), and I'm confident OP could have probably rescued it if he wanted to. But I agree, it's pretty much game over because you can't edit the link after you've submitted it. So if you're not prepared to handle dense traffic, it's a good idea to submit coralled link instead or put your website behind CloudFront temporarily.