Looks like the IP address is from Linode. So it could be a $5 VPS running an inefficient server-side framework.

I currently host my personal Web site as static files via AWS CloudFront. But even static hosting on a $5 VPS with Nginx might handle an HN surge fine.

I host my AI-generated code portfolio site separately (to unambiguously distinguish it from my 100% human-written open source work), using github.io (seemed appropriate) with a custom domain.

>static hosting on a $5 VPS with Nginx might handle an HN surge

My personal site is hosted on this exact setup. Twice I made the homepage, twice I noticed no slowdown whatsoever.

The only problem is that in May of this year, when my SimCity 3k in 4k article was found by the HN crowd, its access.log bloated to 200Mb causing my logrotate script (that hooks in Goaccess) to blow up every time since when trying to process it, and this log has been growing every day since - because logrotate isn't doing much rotating!

When I can massage my VPS into processing it, I'll have the stats to enjoy.