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Perhaps they've optimised for the normal levels of traffic they receive, not unanticpated spikes. That's hardly an embarrassing choice.
by blowski 4y ago
Perhaps they've optimised for the normal levels of traffic they receive, not unanticpated spikes. That's hardly an embarrassing choice.
- endisneigh 4y agoI'm not talking about the administrator of this instance, I'm talking about how mastodon is fundamentally designed. Even an iPhone could probably serve the (static) text of Tao's post to a million people on a 5G connection. Computers are fast.
- blowski 4y agoI run Mastodon on a $5 VM. If I hit HN homepage, my site will probably be slow as well. I don’t see how that reflects on Mastodon though.
- endisneigh 4y agowhat am I saying is that there's a way to design a site on a $5 VM that serves static text that wouldn't be slow even if it was #1 on HN. if you disagree with that then we'll have to agree to disagree.