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bandwidth overage after posting on HN i guess?

• tar 14y ago
  Yeah. I think so. People should consider being prepared for massive traffic if you post on HN.
  • bmelton 14y ago
    What about the people who have no idea that somebody else is posting their content to HN?
    • anton000 14y ago
      get a good host that has some bandwidth overage contingency in place to keep your site from going down. unless of course you don't really want traffic on your site.
      • bmelton 14y ago
        It was a rhetorical question, basically. Almost nobody knows whether or not their commodity web host can stand up to an HN-like traffic surge until they actually get an HN-like traffic surge. The alternative is to pay what might seem like a ton of money for something that they aren't going to need 364 days out of the year.
    • tar 14y ago
      I didn't think about it that way.