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Eek, looks like this one is crumbling under our load too!

• ivanca 13y ago
  God dammit! We kill every site we stumble upon; maybe there should be a delay to show links/comments based on time-zones, that way we don't DDOS any site by mistake.
  • roryokane 13y ago
    This solution proposed by jcs would work: https://lobste.rs/s/g0nxrf/we_have_the_ability_to_cache_and_display_story_text_should_we/comments/jomkmf https://lobste.rs/s/g0nxrf/we_have_the_ability_to_cache_and_.... (He’s not talking about HN, but it would work equally well for HN.) The idea is to use the free CoralCDN (http://www.coralcdn.org/ http://www.coralcdn.org/). HN could solve site-killing by prefetching every link with CoralCDN, so that the CDN would cache a version of the page. Then, if HN detects that a site (e.g. http://allrgb.com/ http://allrgb.com/) is down, it would link to the Coral version (e.g. http://allrgb.com.nyud.net/ http://allrgb.com.nyud.net/) until it’s up again. Or alternatively, instead of detecting when sites are down, it could show a control to replace any given link with the CoralCDN version and ask the user to toggle it if the link doesn’t work at first.
    • shocks 13y ago
      Very cool suggestion!