> I'm wondering if anyone can point myself and others to a list of best practices to prevent such a thing from happening. Some obvious remedies: 1. Don't post

> I'm wondering if anyone can point myself and others to a list of best practices to prevent such a thing from happening. Some obvious remedies: 1. Don't post anything interesting to HN. 2. Buy a service that can handle ten times a normal access load, and arrange for incremental capacity increases as the need arises. I've been in the position of having my server overwhelmed on a number of occasions because of "successful" posts to various social media, and it turned out that no reasonable advance precautions would have made much difference. It's a matter of minimizing the server downtime, not of eliminating it entirely.