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Ironically, their website is not handling the load from HN (and anywhere else they're presently linked from), from what I can tell.

I don't mean to complain - when you're so focused on other parts of your business, it's easy to let things like preparing your front-end for heavy bursts slip by.

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Yeah, you're spot on. We've so been focused on scaling our Gateway and services that we didn't prioritize the infrastructure serving our marketing site. It could really use some love, which we'll be giving it in the very near future. There should be enough caching in place now to handle the HN bump, and we'll be keeping an eye on it.

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