<story><title>Ask PG: What caused the downtime?</title><text>It looks like the site was down for a couple hours. What happened exactly?</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pg</author><text>Still investigating.  The site was slow all day.  We got an immense spike in unique IPs.  Typically we get a bit over 150k/day. Today we got 220k.  Not sure if the downtime was related.&lt;p&gt;I was travelling today and didn&apos;t have proper access to the server, or I would have been on it sooner.</text></comment>
<story><title>Ask PG: What caused the downtime?</title><text>It looks like the site was down for a couple hours. What happened exactly?</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>joshmlewis</author><text>It is very interesting how..eh..addictive this site is.  It&apos;s like a habit to do CMD + T and start typing in news.y..etc.  And while it was down I was refreshing every few minutes.  I think personally I do get a lot out of this site, I definitely wouldn&apos;t be where I am today without it.  I&apos;ve learned a lot, asked a lot, and tried to give back as much as I could.  I landed a couple jobs from here that have now set me on a very successful path at such a young age.  I&apos;m very thankful for the community here.  Sorry for turning this into an emotional post, but I really owe a lot to HN.&lt;p&gt;EDIT: I do just do CMD + T and then n for everyone who thought I did otherwise.  Sometimes it happens so quickly I do new..or whatever, but you get the idea.  This is a trivial point.</text></comment>