My little brother just had his first successful piece of linkbait hit it big: List of Superhero Powers. It got farked and then so did the VPS I was hosting his blog on. I have spent the last hour fighting with the configuration so that it can withstand a traffic graph that looks something like a standing wave. It seems to be stable now, thankfully.
Sidenote to anyone who thinks playing amateur server admin in crisis mode is a good idea: put your Apache config files in version control because if you bork your redirection code and don’t remember how you got it working the first time you will be sorry.
