[tar]

Yeah. I think so. People should consider being prepared for massive traffic if you post on HN.

[bmelton]

What about the people who have no idea that somebody else is posting their content to HN?

[tar]

I didn't think about it that way.

[anton000]

get a good host that has some bandwidth overage contingency in place to keep your site from going down. unless of course you don't really want traffic on your site.

[bmelton]

It was a rhetorical question, basically. Almost nobody knows whether or not their commodity web host can stand up to an HN-like traffic surge until they actually get an HN-like traffic surge.

The alternative is to pay what might seem like a ton of money for something that they aren't going to need 364 days out of the year.