It's not an uncommon story for independant blogs to become the leading article on hacker news. Small blogs gain such huge viewership and popularity, directed from places such as hacker news it's unsurprising that some cannot cope. As readers we are faced with the unfortunate situation of a 503 or connection refused error message because the small blog has effectively been DoS'ed. PingMe sends you a notification of when the blog has come back online. So you may finally return to the website and read the article.
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