[nine_k]

I think people who make these pages neither anticipate nor aim for getting to the front page of HN or other large audience. This us why they don't spend time setting up.Cloudflare and such.

Then somebody posts a link, which, against all odds, gets enough upvotes, et voilà, their hardware is melting under the load

[aaronk6]

Exactly! I had only posted the link on www.reddit.com/r/reactos and didn’t expect it to get attention from a wider audience :-) Also, I deliberately avoided CDNs and caches to see if the source system can handle the load. I know that this woudn’t make any sense in real-world scenario, but for this project, this was part of the fun.