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Still investigating, but Nick just turned off the site for non logged-in users to take the load off the system while we try to figure out what's going on.
by pg 13y ago
Still investigating, but Nick just turned off the site for non logged-in users to take the load off the system while we try to figure out what's going on.
- zmitri 13y agoIf you don't mind me asking, what percentage of page views are non logged-in users?
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- slg 13y agoIt is interesting that this is the exact opposite action Reddit takes when they are having server problems. I wonder what that says about each respective community.
- smackfu 13y agoFrom a technical side, it probably means that Reddit is showing static pages to visitors while HN is showing dynamic ones.
- AlisdairO 13y agoReddit's previously stated that non-logged-in users cause substantially lower resource consumption per user - I imagine that's a more likely explanation.
- oceanplexian 13y agoReddit uses an edge-cache for all logged-out content. They pass logged-in content. A cached HTTP document in something like Varnish should take virtually no resources whatsoever. HN is on Cloudflare but they might not be caching pages at the edge (they should).
- aidos 13y agoPresumably there's only so much caching you can do it this case - the points change on articles every second. Not like everyone has to see the most up to date content but it would be a trade off (that many wouldn't like)