Yep but twice the amount of incoming requests spread out over time. When the site doesn't load I think it's fair to do either 1 of 2 things: 1. Accept that yo

Yep but twice the amount of incoming requests spread out over time. When the site doesn't load I think it's fair to do either 1 of 2 things: 1. Accept that you can't read the article. 2. Have some kind of retry mechanism ( for example: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/architecture/exponential-backoff-and-jitter/ https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/architecture/exponential-backof... ) But I don't think trying once and complaining about it in a comment is making anything better for anyone.