I mean...you should probably hire good enough engineers that a website can withstand a pretty small amount of HN attention...
...I kid!
But seriously, though, how is it possible in 2025 that websites can still collapse from the relatively minuscule traffic that an HN front page sends? Are people upvoting this submission without having actually seen it?
EDIT: For the "works for me" people, the site's host, framer.app, uses Amazon's cloud and whole regions are getting SSL errors for this domain.
That site appears to be running on an Amazon IP (on my traceroute, in the block https://ipinfo.io/AS16509/52.223.48.0/20). If it didn't load immediately, I wonder if you got unlucky enough to catch an autoscaler napping (or maybe they aren't autoscaling; sometimes dodging the hug of death completely isn't worth the cost, depending on how cost-sensitive a firm is).
(ETA: However, the DNS entry is willing to give some wildly different IPs for the lookup, and at least one of them appears to be flagged as abusive, so if you're behind a corporate firewall it's possible an auto-protector is blocking you).
From my normal desktop it is resolving as 18.204.152.241 / 18.204.152.241 which seems to have misconfigured SSL. From a cloud instance it is drawing 52.223.52.2 / 35.71.142.77 which load properly.
I know how much of a traffic pump HN is, having had a number of pages front-page here during prime time over the years. It isn't that big of a traffic spike at all. It's a much more interesting and interested group than many sources, but a single-core min-scale cloud compute can handle it presuming you aren't doing something silly.
In this case their hosting app has screwed up SSL configs for some of their GeoIP served options.
...I kid!
But seriously, though, how is it possible in 2025 that websites can still collapse from the relatively minuscule traffic that an HN front page sends? Are people upvoting this submission without having actually seen it?
EDIT: For the "works for me" people, the site's host, framer.app, uses Amazon's cloud and whole regions are getting SSL errors for this domain.