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How large is the "HN effects" that it brings so many sites down? Even those hosted on 'professional web hosting' and not on home computers?

Anybody has some stats?

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The HN effect isn't that big. Quadruply so in this case as it's making the front page during the dead hours of HN, with but 18 upvotes and a couple of comments.

This site fell over with minimal attention.

I'm a broken record on this, but people should not blame Wordpress for the continual pattern of poorly configured Wordpress instances, as the platform is built to have a caching plugin of one sort of another: I have Wordpress instances that serve enormous loads without breaking a sweat (even on AWS micro instances), all courtesy of absolutely rudimentary functionality of W3TC.

Seriously, when you submit your own stuff there should be a checkbox acknowledging that you have basic caching in place.

If it's avoidable (and on very static type pages like this, it should be) then yah. Keep in mind that what seems easy to you may be wildly new territory for others. Just because you're technical doesn't mean you know the ins and outs of running a server.

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