Just put the site behind a cache, like Cloudflare, and set your cache control headers properly?
They mention that they are already using Cloudflare. I’m confused about what is actually causing the load. They don’t mention any technical details, but it does kinda sound like their cache control headers are not set properly. I’m too lazy to check for myself though…
I’ve found that if left on default settings, CloudFlare is not that great at caching. It requires a bit of configuration to really make it sing. itsfoss.com thought they were “using CloudFlare” but probably not to it’s fullest potential.
Even without Cloudflare, simple NGINX microcaching would help a ton there.
It’s a blog, it doesn’t need to regenerate a new page every single time for anonymous users. There’s no reason it shouldn’t be able to sustain 20k requests per second on a single server. Even a one second cache on the backend for anonymous users would help a ton there.
They have Cloudflare in front, the site should be up with the server being turned off entirely.
I’m confused about what is actually causing the load.
Thousands of instances simultaneously fetching link previews from a VPS w/2GB RAM.
This should be front and center, caching won’t be able to make up for that…
There’s another reason I don’t share “It’s FOSS” links anywhere: this should have been a github issue but it’s turned into a clickbaity headline. Every othe article coming out of “It’s FOSS” is either low effort, sensationalist, or both.
Real talk, the mastodon traffic stampede isn’t that bad for a properly configured website.
I always downvote posts with titles like this. Here’s Why -
Their website isn’t properly caching pages which is the real reason they’re having problems.
