I think it got the HN kiss of death. We need a new page about how to avoid this. Basic scaling skills I tells ya.

It's a lot of the same people that refuse free CDNs.

You don’t even need a cdn. The cheapest vps can handle HN load serving static pages. The problem tends to come when it’s some inefficient dynamic page triggering db calls to load a blog post.

Ever wonder why those CDNs are "free"?

No, but I am now! Why?

Control.