I always find it funny that tech people can't host a personal website/blog on a server without it going down due to load - usually because the database is overloaded.

Yep, MySQL crashes for some reason from time to time. I'm eventually going to migrate this site from DigitalOcean to somewhere else, probably OpenBSD.amsterdam.

I just restarted MySQL so I should be good until the next time 5+ people try to access my site at once.

Sure, but no-one asked them if they'd like their article to be referenced on HN, Reddit etc then to be hugged to death.

It was submitted here by the author.

I don't see anything in "superdisk"'s profile or in the comments that backs this up.

All submissions are from that domain, and "superdisk" is their username if you check their site.

Ah, ok. I could only access the archived version of the site and couldn't get to the "Main Page" on WayBackMachine for some reason.