Surviving several thousand pageviews compressed into a few hours is really not a feat. Not surviving them is also not newsworthy. Getting on the front page of

Surviving several thousand pageviews compressed into a few hours is really not a feat. Not surviving them is also not newsworthy. Getting on the front page of HN, or before that Reddit, Digg, Slashdot etc, is awesome but in almost no cases does it warrant a "how I did it or how I survived it" post unless there's actually something remarkable about your setup or whatever trick you did to get there.