You folks overflowed the 32 MB of RAM that my forum is running on and caused it to restart a few times due to the high amount of simultaneous connections. It has recovered now though

I’m guessing HN hug of death. Probably smarter than just auto scaling to handle any surge traffic and then get swamped by crawlers & higher bills.

It just supports 1536 concurrent users [0].

Which is fine unless you get to HN frontpage.

[0] https://lenowo.org/viewtopic.php?t=28