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The site is getting hugged to death. https://web.archive.org/web/20230724143835/https://lock.cmpxchg8b.com/zenbleed.html https://web.archive.org/web/20230724143

by sounds 3y ago

The site is getting hugged to death. https://web.archive.org/web/20230724143835/https://lock.cmpxchg8b.com/zenbleed.html https://web.archive.org/web/20230724143835/https://lock.cmpx...

AdmiralAsshat 3y ago
And now we've hugged the archive to death. Nice job!
loeg 3y ago
The original still loads (eventually) for me. YMMV.
- nevi-me 3y ago
  XMMV or ZMMV could also apply
  - account42 3y ago
    [flagged]
ksec 3y ago
It is a simple static HTML page, how is it possible in 2023 a static site could be hugged to death. In most cases HN traffic barely hits 100 page view per second.
- jedberg 3y ago
  It's a security writeup so it's probably run by a security expert who is not an expert at running high traffic websites. Most likely there is something on the page that causes a database hit. Possibly the page content itself.
  - deleted 3y ago
    [deleted]
- taviso 3y ago
  welp, that's unfortunate indeed. It's a single-core 128 MB VPS, which seemed fine for my boring static html articles. I guess I underestimated the interest.
  - tamimio 3y ago
    Doesn’t matter, great article!
  - account42 3y ago
    Interesting, do you mind sharing what software you use to serve the static html and what kind of traffic its getting.
    - loeg 3y ago
      HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2023 17:05:06 GMT Server: Apache
      - brazzledazzle 3y ago
        I do not miss performance tuning apache.
        cesarb 3y ago
        In my personal experience, the first step in tuning Apache was "put a nginx server in front of it". Running out of workers (either processes in the prefork model, or threads otherwise) was in my experience way too easy, especially when keepalive is enabled (even a couple of seconds of keepalive can be painful). The async model used by nginx can handle a lot more connections before running out of resources.
        zokier 3y ago
        Apache has been defaulting to event mpm for over a decade.
  - 3y ago
- marcus0x62 3y ago
  I imagine they are also getting traffic from sources other than HN.
- winrid 3y ago
  100rps for most articles. I bet this is at least double that, and he's using apache which by default I think is still thread per connection.
ComputerGuru 3y ago
Faster link: https://archive.is/QAwvQ https://archive.is/QAwvQ

by sounds 3y ago

The site is getting hugged to death. https://web.archive.org/web/20230724143835/https://lock.cmpxchg8b.com/zenbleed.html https://web.archive.org/web/20230724143835/https://lock.cmpx...

AdmiralAsshat 3y ago

And now we've hugged the archive to death. Nice job!

loeg 3y ago

The original still loads (eventually) for me. YMMV.

nevi-me 3y ago
XMMV or ZMMV could also apply
- account42 3y ago
  [flagged]

ksec 3y ago

It is a simple static HTML page, how is it possible in 2023 a static site could be hugged to death. In most cases HN traffic barely hits 100 page view per second.

jedberg 3y ago
It's a security writeup so it's probably run by a security expert who is not an expert at running high traffic websites. Most likely there is something on the page that causes a database hit. Possibly the page content itself.
- deleted 3y ago
  [deleted]
taviso 3y ago
welp, that's unfortunate indeed. It's a single-core 128 MB VPS, which seemed fine for my boring static html articles. I guess I underestimated the interest.
- tamimio 3y ago
  Doesn’t matter, great article!
- account42 3y ago
  Interesting, do you mind sharing what software you use to serve the static html and what kind of traffic its getting.
  - loeg 3y ago
    HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2023 17:05:06 GMT Server: Apache
    - brazzledazzle 3y ago
      I do not miss performance tuning apache.
      - cesarb 3y ago
        In my personal experience, the first step in tuning Apache was "put a nginx server in front of it". Running out of workers (either processes in the prefork model, or threads otherwise) was in my experience way too easy, especially when keepalive is enabled (even a couple of seconds of keepalive can be painful). The async model used by nginx can handle a lot more connections before running out of resources.
        zokier 3y ago
        Apache has been defaulting to event mpm for over a decade.
- 3y ago
marcus0x62 3y ago
I imagine they are also getting traffic from sources other than HN.
winrid 3y ago
100rps for most articles. I bet this is at least double that, and he's using apache which by default I think is still thread per connection.

ComputerGuru 3y ago

Faster link: https://archive.is/QAwvQ https://archive.is/QAwvQ