Site down, but here’s another link: https://web.archive.org/web/20191117035933/h...

anonytrary · on Nov 17, 2019

Seems a bit odd that it's down. This post has only a few upvotes right now, so the hug of death must have been pretty small.

rbanffy · on Nov 17, 2019

I wonder if there are other hug of death sources on the internet for sites like Wikichip. It has certainly survived more popular articles on HN.

jsjohnst · on Nov 17, 2019

Agree. Very interesting read though!

Tade0 · on Nov 17, 2019

I wonder how small a small HoD is really? 10k concurrent requests?

jsjohnst · on Nov 19, 2019

You are way high for almost anything but a company website that has an engineering team dedicated to it. Yes, there are exceptions (my blog could handle orders of magnitude higher traffic than that, but I had a multi-tier CDN in front of it with 100% full page caching. Did it need it, no, but it was fun to setup).

Typically speaking, most personal / non-professional sites going down from a HoD on HN probably got under 500 concurrent requests.