Hug of Death: Viral on Reddit
by KevinA few days after the official launch, I thought it would be nice to share Cloudhiker (then called Stumbled) on Reddit - while I was with my family, having a wonderful weekend. Well, the launch post on /r/InternetIsBeautiful exploded, reaching over 18k upvotes. My small, innocent VPS with 2 cores and 4GB of RAM went down shortly after publishing the post. 😨
I immediately logged into the Hetzner control panel and upgraded to a 12-core, 16GB RAM beast. The rest of the day went on smoothly, receiving more than a million page views over the course of 3 days. Over 1000 users signed up. Up to this day, my most successful post on Reddit.
