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		natrius on Feb 18, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Anti-IRS Rant of Software Engineer who Today Flew ... Most static pages still get pulled by hosting providers when faced with that kind of traffic. That might be what happened here, or the authorities could've asked them to pull it.

icefox on Feb 18, 2010 [–]

I could understand for dynamic pages, but static? Do they think they are getting attacked?

natrius on Feb 18, 2010 | [–]

Accounts usually have bandwidth limits that get tripped by this sort of thing. 33 kB * millions of viewers = gigabytes of data.

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