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Website constantly times out for me, stuff doesn't load etc. Not sure if that's because of traffic due to this post or not.

techindex 7y ago
Definitely the traffic. Wasn't expecting the front page. Working on it now.
- MiroF 7y ago
  Is the site self-hosted?
  - jannes 7y ago
    That's not what people use the term "self-hosted" for. It doesn't really apply to websites that you created yourself. It rather applies to off-the-shelf software that you use as an alternative to SaaS offerings.
    - ricardbejarano 7y ago
      Perhaps we need a new term or two to distinguish between "services I provide through providers" and "services I provide with my own metal" (except ISP and power, 'cause I run my services but I'm not buying a power plant). At the moment people, myself included, use "self-host" for both.
- ricardbejarano 7y ago
  I know a lot of people here don't like Cloudflare, but they provide a solution to the "HN hug of death" mentioned above for free. Whenever you expect to get a traffic spike, you can always turn proxying on for a day or two and turn it off afterwards.
  - jagged-chisel 7y ago
    Does the HN crowd not like Cloudflare? If that's the case, why not?
    - esotericn 7y ago
      They terminate TLS for you.
      - notduncansmith 7y ago
        They can, although they support end-to-end encryption as well.
    - big_chungus 7y ago
      Most of the "HN crowd" like cloudflare a lot, as it's quite convenient, especially for personal projects. There are a few very vocal people who dislike it for all kinds of reasons: taking down too much, not taking down enough, centralization, etc.
      - ricardbejarano 7y ago
        > There are a few very vocal people who dislike it for all kinds of reasons [...] I'll have to agree, there are few but very vocal.
    - jlg23 7y ago
      Privacy. Cloudfare-users hand a lot of their clients' data to a third party.
- prophesi 7y ago
  I'd highly recommend Solr[0] for searching to cut down the load. Or, if this is a static site, you could use Lunr[1] to have an efficient search that runs on the client. Is this site OSS? [0] https://lucene.apache.org/solr/ https://lucene.apache.org/solr/ [1] https://lunrjs.com/ https://lunrjs.com/
  - techindex 7y ago
    Thank you. I will check out Solr. I'm using Elasticsearch currently for the readmes, but I disabled it while troubleshooting so it's currently just searching on titles and descriptions via mysql. I will re-enable elasticsearch later and figure out how to better optimize it for future traffic.
    - prophesi 7y ago
      Ah, then there's no need to check out Solr! They both use the same backend search engine called Lucene.
max23_ 7y ago
Probably HN hug of death.
vesinisa 7y ago
For me, on all search results, only the first page loads. Second page is an empty document: https://selfhostedsource.tech/self-hosted/?page=2&search=web https://selfhostedsource.tech/self-hosted/?page=2&search=web (Not sure if a bug or due to load.)
- techindex 7y ago
  Bug. It should be fixed now. Sorry about that.

techindex 7y ago

Definitely the traffic. Wasn't expecting the front page. Working on it now.

MiroF 7y ago
Is the site self-hosted?
- jannes 7y ago
  That's not what people use the term "self-hosted" for. It doesn't really apply to websites that you created yourself. It rather applies to off-the-shelf software that you use as an alternative to SaaS offerings.
  - ricardbejarano 7y ago
    Perhaps we need a new term or two to distinguish between "services I provide through providers" and "services I provide with my own metal" (except ISP and power, 'cause I run my services but I'm not buying a power plant). At the moment people, myself included, use "self-host" for both.
ricardbejarano 7y ago
I know a lot of people here don't like Cloudflare, but they provide a solution to the "HN hug of death" mentioned above for free. Whenever you expect to get a traffic spike, you can always turn proxying on for a day or two and turn it off afterwards.
- jagged-chisel 7y ago
  Does the HN crowd not like Cloudflare? If that's the case, why not?
  - esotericn 7y ago
    They terminate TLS for you.
    - notduncansmith 7y ago
      They can, although they support end-to-end encryption as well.
  - big_chungus 7y ago
    Most of the "HN crowd" like cloudflare a lot, as it's quite convenient, especially for personal projects. There are a few very vocal people who dislike it for all kinds of reasons: taking down too much, not taking down enough, centralization, etc.
    - ricardbejarano 7y ago
      > There are a few very vocal people who dislike it for all kinds of reasons [...] I'll have to agree, there are few but very vocal.
  - jlg23 7y ago
    Privacy. Cloudfare-users hand a lot of their clients' data to a third party.
prophesi 7y ago
I'd highly recommend Solr[0] for searching to cut down the load. Or, if this is a static site, you could use Lunr[1] to have an efficient search that runs on the client. Is this site OSS? [0] https://lucene.apache.org/solr/ https://lucene.apache.org/solr/ [1] https://lunrjs.com/ https://lunrjs.com/
- techindex 7y ago
  Thank you. I will check out Solr. I'm using Elasticsearch currently for the readmes, but I disabled it while troubleshooting so it's currently just searching on titles and descriptions via mysql. I will re-enable elasticsearch later and figure out how to better optimize it for future traffic.
  - prophesi 7y ago
    Ah, then there's no need to check out Solr! They both use the same backend search engine called Lucene.

max23_ 7y ago

Probably HN hug of death.

vesinisa 7y ago

For me, on all search results, only the first page loads. Second page is an empty document: https://selfhostedsource.tech/self-hosted/?page=2&search=web https://selfhostedsource.tech/self-hosted/?page=2&search=web (Not sure if a bug or due to load.)

techindex 7y ago
Bug. It should be fixed now. Sorry about that.