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		ForFreedom on Jan 31, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Amazon's homepage was down Apart from it being down all hits from hackers are bound to just create load on the server. :)

lucb1e on Jan 31, 2013 [–]

My server with an Intel Atom, Windows 7, and 100KB/s upload connection didn't go down from reaching the Hacker News homepage. It's laughable that any other website does. For Amazon, traffic from sites like Hackernews must be completely negligible.

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