[devwastaken]

"Error establishing a database connection" The greatest knowledge by experience for all for us in devops.

[ohkaiby]

Author made an edit:

> THE BIGGEST LESSON I LEARNED TODAY

> Don’t forget to turn on your caching plugin and CDN. I submitted this blog post to Hacker News and this website can’t be accessed.

> And I HOPE it won’t crash right after I wrote this. I hope! Haha.

Haa... nice.

[eljimmy]

I don't think there could have been a more hilarious response to clicking a link with that title. Got a good chuckle out of it.

[nautilus12]

Hahah, that was my thought too. The wisdom is to always do load testing.

[blojayble]

Has anyone measured how much traffic can being on the front page of HN generate?

[jsjohnst]

It's not as bad as you'd think in total volume, it's just you get a lot of bursty concurrent traffic. Something as simple as a hundred requests in roughly the same second crash many blogs sadly.

[beobab]

It is a very important lesson. Caching is your friend.

[admira1Ackb4r]

I'm guessing it's a wordpress site? Try disabling php xml rpc.... It could be getting hammered by spambots or malware vectors.

[hugo9099]

same here.. lol