[halamadrid]

I don't think it was designed to handle the volume of traffic that HN generates.

[executesorder66]

A Cloudflare fronted website can't handle HN frontpage levels of traffic?

Then why does anybody use cloudflare?

[tecleandor]

Probably bad cache headers configuration. Even with Cloudflare in front it could be forwarding every request to the backend if the cache headers are misconfigured...