Ask HN: How do you prevent your site from crashing from too much traffic?

<p><pre><code> 1. Static files whenever possible 2. Caches wherever possible 3. Database indexes </code></pre> These optimizations tend to pay off the most and probably require the least amount of expertise.<p>A good IDS system that prevents bots and attackers from consuming resources can also be helpful.

Static files always help, especially if your using something like Nginx to serve them.<p>Cache is also great, I make use of MemCache and Varnish on most of my applications.

Depends on the site.. what backend are you using?

I don't market it :P