I think it was caused by the alpha test geo-blocking filters I had in place that should have been removed.

The servers are well structured for scaling and right now they all show very low load usage despite the surge in traffic from HN.

I have removed all geo-filters so hopefully that will allow you access the site now if you care to try again.

I do appreciate you letting me know about it!

> Um it's shouldn't really be down when you show it to people

Everybody gets hugged when they front page on hacker news, it is a stress test all on its own. There is no reason to be rude about it. FWIW It seems to be back up now.

It is actually not intentionally offline nor are the servers overloaded.

I am guessing there is configuration limit somewhere that triggered it, but I am looking into it now.

Thank you for letting me know and for the screenshot!