It gets DDOSed because after the boost, all the subscribers’ instances are calling it to retrieve the content?
Do you think a load balancer might help?
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wisdomchicken@piefed.social 3 weeks agoi ddos my wordpress-activitypub-enabled website every time i boost a post made from there to my 10k followers. tried every single caching plugin for it as well.
activitypub scaling is a very real issue
INeedMana@piefed.zip 3 weeks ago
chilicheeselies@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
OP would have to have their wordpress site running on multiple instances to leverage that. It would work, but now they are paying for more infrastructure.
INeedMana@piefed.zip 3 weeks ago
Yes, but those could be just “read instances” spinned up by a peak in requests at load balancer. Not running all the time
chilicheeselies@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Fair point
rimu@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
Cloudflare caching can solve this. Cache based on the user agent.
poVoq@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
ActivityPub is designed to scale well for millions of users with a low number of subscribers each (dunbars number and so on). It is not designed as a mass media publishing tool where a few have tens of thousands or even millions of followers.
I consider this a feature, but feel free to disagree.