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notrealyme123 ◴[09 Apr 25 09:07 UTC] No.43630255[source]▶
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Otherwise rate limited

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h1fra ◴[09 Apr 25 09:33 UTC] No.43630385[source]▶
wondering how can a static blog can be rate limited :|
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1. mr90210 ◴[09 Apr 25 09:34 UTC] No.43630389[source]▶
Traffic. Huge loads of it.
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2. vanschelven ◴[09 Apr 25 09:49 UTC] No.43630461[source]▶
I'm not sure what "huge loads" means in this context though.

Remember when nginx was written in 2002 to solve the C10K problem?

3. PeterStuer ◴[09 Apr 25 09:53 UTC] No.43630481[source]▶
How would your static text only blog generate "huge loads" on a CDN?
4. ahofmann ◴[09 Apr 25 10:33 UTC] No.43630659[source]▶
What do you mean? What is huge to you? For me a static blog on a small vps would start to crumble at around 30 to 150 requests per second. This number is broad because the are a lot of moving parts even in this scope. This results in 2.5 million to almost 13 million page views a day. To reach numbers like that you need to get reeeeaally popular. With some planning a static website can be served billions of times a day before saturating the network stack.

So what are you talking about?