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A change of address led to our Wise accounts being shut down

(shaun.nz)
325 points jemmyw | 1 comments | 30 Oct 25 22:41 UTC | HN request time: 0.214s | source
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tecoholic ◴[30 Oct 25 22:55 UTC] No.45766370[source]▶
They might have to follow up with a “why we are never using <hosting> again”
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hshdhdhehd ◴[30 Oct 25 22:57 UTC] No.45766391[source]▶
A 9 point HN post shouldn't bring down the server.
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stavros ◴[30 Oct 25 23:10 UTC] No.45766492[source]▶
No amount of HN popularity should bring down a static article, really.
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nomilk ◴[30 Oct 25 23:15 UTC] No.45766529[source]▶
it's wordpress, so technically not static, although if it was it wouldn't have this resource problem.
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LambdaComplex ◴[31 Oct 25 00:31 UTC] No.45767088[source]▶
Don't cache plugins exist for WordPress? Or, barring that, wouldn't CloudFlare help?
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1. rezonant ◴[31 Oct 25 00:58 UTC] No.45767245[source]▶
They do, but they aren't very good. PHP is very fast, but unfortunately Wordpress is carefully designed to make it very slow.