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Using Cloudflare on your website could be blocking RSS users

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556 points campuscodi | 1 comments | 16 Oct 24 22:46 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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rcarmo ◴[17 Oct 24 06:55 UTC] No.41867081[source]▶
Ironically, the site seems to currently be hugged to death, so maybe they should consider using Cloudflare to deal with HN traffic?
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sofixa ◴[17 Oct 24 09:47 UTC] No.41867964[source]▶
Doesn't have to be using CloudFlare, just a static web host that will be able to scale to infinity (of which CloudFlare is one with Pages, but there's also Google with Firebase Hosting, AWS with Amplify, Microsoft with something in Azure with a verbose name, Netlify, Vercel, GitHub Pages, etc etc etc).
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kawsper ◴[17 Oct 24 12:43 UTC] No.41869132[source]▶
Or just add Varnish or Nginx configured with a cache in front.
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1. vundercind ◴[17 Oct 24 14:44 UTC] No.41870150{3}[source]▶
I used to serve low-tens-of-MB .zip files—worse than a web page and a few images or what have you—statically from Apache2 on a boring Linux server that'd qualify as potato-tier today, with traffic spikes into the hundreds of thousands per minute. Tens of thousands per minute against other endpoints gated by PHP setting a header to tell Apache2 to serve the file directly if the client authenticated correctly, and I think that one could have gone a lot higher, never really gave it a workout. Wasn't even really taxing the hardware that much for either workload.

Before that, it was on a mediocre-even-at-the-time dedicated-cores VM. That caused performance problems... because its Internet "pipe" was straw-sized, it turned out. The server itself was fine.

Web server performance has regressed amazingly badly in the world of the Cloud. Even "serious" sites have decided the performance equivalent of shitty shared-host Web hosting is a great idea and that introducing all the problems of distributed computing at the architecture level will help their moderate-traffic site work better (LOL; LMFAO), so now they need Cloudflare and such just so their "scalable" solution doesn't fall over in a light breeze.