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by naquad 4640 days ago
very ironically: service for monitoring shows 500 error
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Apart from HN, we were doing great on reddit.com/r/sysadmin/. Crazy traffic. Unfortunately, the site couldn't handle it. Ngnix was going out of TCP handles. Arrrrrrgh, we should have done a better job in load testing. Fixed it by increasing filehandles. Give it a spin now!
probably the HN-Effect.