Thanks. That was an interesting read. After being hugged by AskReddit we also put more static content on the shoulders of nginx, and drastically improved caching. Prior to our hug, we weren't even using CSS sprites for our images, which resulted in many unnecessary requests. We also use DO. That's too bad. I read your article, and enjoyed it. We won't punish your servers nearly as much, but you'll never see us pull down an article either: http://hubski.com/pub?id=100957(Un)fortunately after 4 hours of being number one on the technology subreddit, my article was marked as SPAM and yanked of the page. The only explanation I got from the moderators was that this post was an opinion, not news. In some way I was relieved as I was seeing the traffic going down. It was still a lot but my server could handle it.