What is it about HN that overwhelms small servers like this? It was a small static page so I wouldn't think it'd be that much load on the server itself, even for an OrangePi like this one.
Too many simultaneous connections for his router maybe? Or too much bandwidth for his internet connection?
If they are behind a NAT/ stateful firewall there is just so much connections it will handle at once. I think OpenWRT has like 16K max by default, f.ex. So for less than 16K requests by different users/IPs… each is kept for about 1 minute I think… it quickly will go down, I guess. :)
You're going to need a bigger host to support HN traffic :)
What is it about HN that overwhelms small servers like this? It was a small static page so I wouldn't think it'd be that much load on the server itself, even for an OrangePi like this one.
Too many simultaneous connections for his router maybe? Or too much bandwidth for his internet connection?
If they are behind a NAT/ stateful firewall there is just so much connections it will handle at once. I think OpenWRT has like 16K max by default, f.ex. So for less than 16K requests by different users/IPs… each is kept for about 1 minute I think… it quickly will go down, I guess. :)
cat /proc/sys/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_max
Should give some details.
Do you know if using the DMZ feature on most routers instead of port forwarding would get around this limit, or if there's any other way?
I wish submitters would try using .onion sites for small static pages, for example as an alternative URL
Fewer source IPs