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Why would a VPS choke hosting static HTML? For 5 EUR you get 20 TB traffic on Hetzner.
by Mashimo 5mo ago
Why would a VPS choke hosting static HTML?
For 5 EUR you get 20 TB traffic on Hetzner.
- not_kurt_godel 5mo agoYou tell me. Here's a list of maybe 15 sites it's happened to on HN in just the last month: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastMonth&page=0&prefix=true&query=hug%20of%20death&sort=byDate&type=all https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastMonth&page=0&prefix=tr...
- Mashimo 5mo agoI also know it happens. I still don't understand why.
- not_kurt_godel 5mo agoServers and/or their supporting infrastructure break in a million annoying ways when you throw a bunch of traffic at them. The top 2 culprits I've seen over the years are memory leaks and disks getting full from non-existent/failed log deletion/harvesting. 99.9% of those problems are effectively solved permanently and for free by using a CDN where applicable.