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[–] cbarrick@lemmy.world 56 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

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...

[–] Max_P@lemmy.max-p.me 21 points 6 months ago

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.

[–] rimu@piefed.social 21 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

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.