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In the same vein, I'm surprised how many static websites go down just because they appear on a news site.

Most of those I see either:

1. Aren't static sites but are things like WordPress blogs running server-side PHP essentially unnecessarily.

2. Don't take down the server, but just hit the tiny bandwidth quota of some cheap shared hosting provider, so the host blocks it.

A significant amount also seem to saturate their line, especially on photo-heavy static sites

3. Use the distro's default Apache connection limit of 20, despite the server being able to handle thousands of concurrent connections. The limited connections are then quickly used by users with slow connections.

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