Is there no ordering for incoming requests that would just slow a server down instead of breaking? What actually breaks?

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    6 hours ago

    The Reddit hug of death is when someone posts a link in a big community and thousands of people visit it, generating so much traffic at once that, while legitimate, ends up having the same effect as an actual attack does of overloading a website and causing it to become unavailable. Has nothing to do with the Reddit app being hot garbage.