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There is one "site on the Internet" being pinged, the author's personal site. I'm guessing it would need to be hosted behind a CDN or so to provide this oracle

There is one "site on the Internet" being pinged, the author's personal site. I'm guessing it would need to be hosted behind a CDN or so to provide this oracle that can be benchmarked against? Otherwise how would I know it's my internet that's bad (especially if my internet is quite good and sensitive enough to notice server side problems) and not the website failing in some way?

apenwarr 4y ago
In general, the load generated by a series of these pings is so low as not to matter, unless a whole ton of people start doing it at once. But in that case, gfblip's trivial backend code will ask the frontends to slow down so that aggregate load stays low.