[mikestew]

I'm trying to figure out how to upgrade the droplet but being honest, my husband is the one who set all this up for me

Yeah, HN can be all "why didn't you just...?" when a site gets hit with traffic, but you know what? I've been in this industry for over 30 years, had a decent stint at Microsoft and other companies you've heard of, working on stuff you've probably used. And if my stupid blog somehow ended up on the front page of $POPULAR_SITE I wouldn't have the first clue how to increase bandwidth. Oh, 30 years of this shite means I know where to immediately start looking, but off the top of my head? phhhhht And it sure as hell would take me more than "a minute to figure out how to add more bandwidth or whatever". :-)

Point is, your page hit the HN lottery, no need for apology. I can bookmark it for later.

[EleanorKonik]

If I can figure out how to GET to my wordpress page for long enough, I'll set up a redirect and mirror it as an article on https://obsidianroundup.org/ — which is literally what I was working on this week, haha, the nice folks at Ghost's concierge already helped me do it for my history nerd stuff newsletter.

Someone reached out and said I can use Cloudflare to fix this, so I'm gonna go try that, doot doot.

[mattnewton]

This - I've worked fullstack on apps that do unfathomable numbers of connections per second. But for a personal blog the best thing I could muster is probably go to the cloudflare site with my wallet in hand and click around nervously until I figure out how to buy caching from them before it falls off the top page of hacker news.