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Wondering if this is the result of the HN equivalent of being slashdotted ...
by jethronethro 2y ago
Wondering if this is the result of the HN equivalent of being slashdotted ...
- SushiHippie 2y agoProbably, before submitting this link everything worked fine, but now I can't even load the page. Didn't knew that so many people on HN look into the "new" tab, that it could crash a website. Here is an archive link: https://web.archive.org/web/20240802013632/https://ewritable.com/ https://web.archive.org/web/20240802013632/https://ewritable...
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- waterproof 2y agoWe call it the hug of death.
- tomrod 2y agoHN H(ug)o(f)D(eath)
- _heimdall 2y agoI'm always surprised when I see this happen. I could see a quick surge in traffic locking up the server, likely at the database, but I'd also expect that to sort itself out quickly with a reasonable infrastructure setup. I'm seeing a 503 here now, maybe they ran into a hard cap on hosting bandwidth?
- bee_rider 2y agoI think it is just a news site about e-ink devices. Maybe just falling over is a reasonably failure mode and they’ve set up enough infrastructure? The site will be there in a day or soC for people that are really interested, most likely.
- spudlyo 2y agoI think it has to do with the default value of max_connections in MySQL being somewhat low, I think it's like 150 or something.
- knodi123 2y ago> of being slashdotted haha, you're old... :-)
- jethronethro 2y agoYes, yes I am. Now get off my lawn! :-)