Yesterday, we were Slashdotted. We had turned off caching the night before to test something with our sidebar, and didn’t figure /. would pick up Edgar’s piece, so we left it off. Naturally, the traffic crush hit and HTMList became unavailable at around noon, PST.

I’ll go into some more detail on what we did to bring things back up and keep the site available in another post, but suffice to say, we moved our background image, subscribe/RSS feed image and Synapse Studios logo over to S3 to help take some of the load off. And of course, S3 went down today.

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