What you see when the small site can't handle the traffic Error code 522

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2024-09-14 22:37:09 UTC
You

Browser

Working
California

FlareCloud

Working
smallsitethatwill
crashfromtheunexpected
attention.com

Host

Error

What happened?

The initial connection between FlareCloud's network and the origin web server timed out because the owner of this poor website really wasn't expecting this amount of traffic. Like geezus, what the hell?

What can I do?

If you're a visitor of this website:

Please try again in a few minutes.

If you're the owner of this website:

Chances are you're currently shitting yourself trying to get things working again. God damn, what is load balancing? Can I cache this shit? No one told me when I was setting this all up that I'd need to scale to a gajillion freaking users in the span of 10 minutes. How will I survive this? Additional troubleshooting information here.