I had an app on the frontpage for a whole day last year (Show HN) and the server behaved like a champ... a simple 6US/month, cloud compute instance on Vultr. It

I had an app on the frontpage for a whole day last year (Show HN) and the server behaved like a champ... a simple 6US/month, cloud compute instance on Vultr. It was a Rails app as well. I generally dont understand how some sites go down so quick.