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How badly does your app have to be coded that it can't handles six requests per second? Are they not caching anything?
by antihero 14y ago
How badly does your app have to be coded that it can't handles six requests per second? Are they not caching anything?
- jgrahamc 14y agoIt's not 6 requests per second, it's six visitors per second. The issue they faced was that they had very few server resources (a 2 core VM from their university) and the site serves a large amount of graphics in the form of map tiles. In the first 24 hours they server about 2.7TB of data (or a continuous 250Mbps).
- jimwalsh 14y agoThis article lacks substance. Describe in detail what their setup was, what tweaks they made. Just saying it got slow and they added Cloudflare just makes it a bad article. Everyone knows a CDN can help. CDNs arent a magic bullet though, and it would be nice to see the technical side of things that were done.