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Quick, everyone, try it out! Pile onto the already overwhelmed server.

• cybrox 5y ago
  The IT equivalent to "I've cut it three times and it's still too short."
  • mrjin 5y ago
    Lol.
• smcl 5y ago
  Yeah I'm a bit puzzled by the intentions behind sharing the link of a site that's down. There are two outcomes behind clicking it: 1. it's down, just like the title of the HN submission says 2. it's up, ok I guess they fixed it? Neither are particularly interesting or useful. If there's something nefarious behind it - someone DDOSing the site or it being taken down by court order or something - then a story on that would be worth submitting.
  • egberts1 5y ago
    Or it could be a wake-damage-control if there were any incident(s) that were to have occurred.
  • matrix12 5y ago
    It's a form of Shadenfreude among maintainers of sites.
• willcipriano 5y ago
  If this was set up with the standard techniques of the past decade or so, it's not a capacity problem it's a configuration problem or something like a data center on fire. Posting it here won't impact resolving the issue.