news.yc gets slower and flakier all the time. i suppose it's not up to the ever-increasing load. i've seen pg post about some process he's got that automatica

news.yc gets slower and flakier all the time. i suppose it's not up to the ever-increasing load. i've seen pg post about some process he's got that automatically restarts the server after it crashes. not to be snarky or anything, but wouldn't it be a better solution to deploy a server that doesn't crash? i've always worried that the quality of this site would gradually decline to the point where it would be unusable. now it looks like the more likely outcome is that the server will get so overloaded that it's unusable. i know this is a free site, and you get what you pay for, etc, but i'd hate to see it die because it really needs a rewrite in some language more robust than arc/lisp. i'm just guessing, but i think pg would rather see the site die than have that happen.