[csvan]

That moment a HN reference to your site causes a full scale DDoS takedown.

[goalieca]

We used to call this slashdotting.. and bots had to be made to mirror sits about to be linked.

[TazeTSchnitzel]

The hug of death.

I do wonder if this wouldn't be preventable with a better-designed web. Why fetch static media from the source anyway? You could grab it from your peers.

[cldellow]

Sounds like you want IPFS: https://ipfs.io/

[vezzy-fnord]

There's plenty of interest in replacing transfer and naming, but I don't see a lot in developing a post-WWW hypertext system. Are there any projects or did the WWW and HTTP kill off research in that area?

[idlewords]

You just need to configure your server right. A static site can take a ridiculous amount of traffic even on toy hardware.

[syntheticnature]

I suspect in this case, the fact that the static page links to a dynamic one on the same server, right up top, and urges you to go there helps not at all.