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Majority of websites that have such viral spikes like businessinsider are content sites. Caching HTML (and everything else) on CDN solves that. Afaik news/poli
by omnimus 3y ago
Majority of websites that have such viral spikes like businessinsider are content sites. Caching HTML (and everything else) on CDN solves that.
Afaik news/political media have to do that anyway because of DDoS. Thats why they can run wordpress (even though thats terribly slow cms/framework). You end up with essentially static website.
- swiftcoder 3y agoEven content sites mostly have user-generated comment feeds (requires a DB connection), and ads (which require processing metrics to justify ad spend). I don't know if the business folks would rather sacrifice those in a load spike, or just load shed at a request level - for an business defined by engagement metrics and ad revenue, it's not clear the former is better than the latter.
- omnimus 3y agoMost of these are handled with outside systems nowdays anyway? Its embedded/loaded using separate API. Separate what can be static and what has to be dynamic. I dont think anyone serious would use comments system from CMS directly. If your comments section dies its a lot better than whole site going down.