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It’s down now. If the typical hackernews traffic could all be queued up, how long would it take the ESP32 to finish processing it all?

• notRobot 3y ago
  Does anyone have recent information on how much traffic being on the HN frontpage gets you? Would be helpful to know.
  • mobilio 3y ago
    15-20k but can be easy solved with CloudFlare full page cache rule
    • snvzz 3y ago
      Likely possible to handle HN load just fine... if the page was static. edit: page loaded. It's apparently Microdot, a micro web framework running on micropython.
      • waveBidder 3y ago
        it's currently dead
      • LoganDark 3y ago
        That explains why it instantly fell over
    • yjftsjthsd-h 3y ago
      Well yeah, anything is easy if your server isn't doing the work.
      • mikercampbell 3y ago
        “This website is run on an ESP32 chip that only cost $3 as for my proxy, I’m using distributed cluster of rack servers and relays”
    • osigurdson 3y ago
      My website runs on baling twine and duct tape (...and CloudFlare).
• harry247 3y ago
  I think it will drop most of the traffic, as I posted in load test results. The traffic coming to this is crazy. I can see nginx access logs and requests are not stopping!!
  • korhojoa 3y ago
    Why don't you configure the nginx that's in front to cache? I mean, it's still hosted on the device, it's just got a caching proxy in front, like all the big boys do.
    • harry247 3y ago
      Its good idea, I never tried or probably didn't know much about nginx caching. Will Nginx cache webpage and serve directly without hitting much the esp32 server. I am going to read on it now
    • harry247 3y ago
      Just did it !! Enabling 10m caching on nginx now (It is good atleast now the link will open from HN homepage). Thanks for suggesting this, I should have done it before