This should be front and center, caching won’t be able to make up for that…
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helenslunch@feddit.nl 2 weeks agoI’m confused about what is actually causing the load.
Thousands of instances simultaneously fetching link previews from a VPS w/2GB RAM.
tacofox@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
breakingcups@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Of course it will, cloudflare is on front of it, they can definitely handje this traffic as long as itsfoss bothers to set correct caching headers for cloudflare to use. That’s the entire point of cloudflare…
cbarrick@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
If caching is properly configured, the cache (Cloudflare) will see thousands of requests, but the VPS should only see one request.