Programmer is incompetent sysadmin on his own projects, film at 11.
Of all the ways to greet a Hacker News invasion, a 256mb slice running all my services including a poorly installed Typo blog with 10 passengers and broken caching is possibly the worst. Thanks to the #roro regulars (especially biv, glenndavy and osseta) for helping me debug exactly how dumb I'd been. (The best part is that it didn't just slow down - the OOM killer managed to assassinate both jenkins and sshd, leaving the poor little server basically catatonic.)
Caching is un-broken now, so hopefully next time I'll be prepared.
