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by SpicyUme 278 days ago
Came back to check this since the tab never loaded. I'm guessing traffic caused some issues?
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minki_the_avali 277 days ago
You folks overflowed the 32 MB of RAM that my forum is running on and caused it to restart a few times due to the high amount of simultaneous connections. It has recovered now though
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Insanity 278 days ago
I’m guessing HN hug of death. Probably smarter than just auto scaling to handle any surge traffic and then get swamped by crawlers & higher bills.
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fifteen1506 277 days ago
It just supports 1536 concurrent users [0].

Which is fine unless you get to HN frontpage.

[0] https://lenowo.org/viewtopic.php?t=28

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