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Surely in this day and age one would set up https, that too on a website related page
Possibly SSL is not something that's quite that easy to set up on ReactOS yet? Probably doesn't have a letsencrypt client. Maybe there's no SSL/TLS library that works on it at all.
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This is HN’s fault this time: it’s forcing HTTPS which the site doesn’t support. Try this, and it’ll work: http://reactos.aaron.cc/
Surely in this day and age one would set up https, that too on a website related page
Over the last few months we've seen so many "Page served from..." and most of them are just DOA. Why can't people put a little effort and host those pages on their hardware/software of choice but at least put them behind some CDN (at least for static resources)?
Because when people do serve them from behind a CDN people rush to the comments to lambast them for not serving every request from the system in question.
Is that why it's not working?
Most likely the HN Hug of Death® had gone into effect. It's capable of incapacitating any sort of system without load balancing as soon as that system is linked from the front of Hacker News.
It's capable of incapacitating any sort of system without load balancing as soon as that system is linked from the front of Hacker News.
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When did the Slashdot effect get renamed to Hug of Death? Anyway, 'tis broken for me too. There must be quite a few hits on your website when HN links it. nginx out of the box can handle quite a lot of connections, assuming that it isn't trying serve something too complicated on each one.
I believe the phrase originated from Reddit many years ago, where the audience isn't fully familiar with the phrase's previous incarnation. Since then it has been reappropriated widely on HN and Imgur and any place where people gather and unwittingly cause a denial of service with the best of intentions.
Dare i say, a cDoS
Over the last few months we've seen so many "Page served from..." and most of them are just DOA. Why can't people put a little effort and host those pages on their hardware/software of choice but at least put them behind some CDN (at least for static resources)?
Then somebody posts a link, which, against all odds, gets enough upvotes, et voilà, their hardware is melting under the load
ReactOS is cool, but like any other hobby OS, it's not cool before it escapes the VM and works on real hw.
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Most likely the HN Hug of Death® had gone into effect. It's capable of incapacitating any sort of system without load balancing as soon as that system is linked from the front of Hacker News.
If you’re just serving static HTML, HN should not be a problem. It’s only if you’re running code (and database queries) for every request that your server might go down in flames.