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As it looks now: All I had to do was enable the SYN cookies feature and restart my web server. Before I enabled SYN cookies none of the requests even got to my web server (on my el cheapo vps box).


Going to the first page of the Hacker News, sometimes has this effect on web servers. :)


It's a homegrown HTTP server so I was kind of waiting for this stress test! :)


Going to the first page of the Hacker News is the best stress test one can do on a web server :)


You must be living a very sheltered life!


With the amount of crashed links from hacker news, I'm not the only one.


Back up, lets see for how long ;)




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