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estsauver on Oct 2, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Show HN: Cancel your Comcast in 5 minutes

I would say that it's more likely that my poor little Vultr.com server didn't expect to be handling quite the traffic load that was pouring its way.

1024core on Oct 3, 2015 [–]

If you post on HN, you should expect a massive amount of traffic. This sounds rough, so don't take it the wrong way, but: if you couldn't anticipate the spike in traffic for your website, how will you handle a spike in (physical) traffic when people suddenly start using your service?

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