They Drank Our Milkshakes

As a hobbyist developer on a tight budget, my servers generally run on inexpensive VPSes (Referral Link) . They're not configured to autoscale. Floods of unexpected traffic cause them to fall over. This fragility is by design, so that my hosting costs won't cause a budget overflow. On the modern web, however, this presents a problem. We Begin Our Story ... On the World Wide Web of ages long past,…