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Page was served from Nginx on ReactOS

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Re: Page was served from Nginx on ReactOS

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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.

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.

Re: Page was served from Nginx on ReactOS

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post #4

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.

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.

Re: Page was served from Nginx on ReactOS

#8
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)?

Re: Page was served from Nginx on ReactOS

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post #5
post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

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.

Re: Page was served from Nginx on ReactOS

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post #5
post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

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.

> When did the Slashdot effect get renamed to Hug of Death?

Probably around then time when reddit really started to take off, so I'd guess early 2010s.

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