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Famous HN hug of death
by bgdkbtv 2y ago
Famous HN hug of death
- hipadev23 2y agoIt’s wild to me how quickly poorly configured servers succumb to a bit of read-only easily-cached traffic.
- cqqxo4zV46cp 2y agoIf this is “wild” to you then you are incredibly, incredibly green behind the ears. This is a very common reality. What you’re really saying is “I could do so much better than this”, which…good for you?
- denysvitali 2y agoThe problem here (IMHO) is using Wordpress to serve a blog. WordPress is fantastic for its WYSIWYG features, but it's probably one of the worst in terms of performance (especially w/o caching). This article could have been an HTML (or even Markdown) page...
- curt15 2y agoWhy should a DB even be involved here? Can't the content be displayed by a static website?
- cqqxo4zV46cp 2y agoWhat do you want someone to say to this? It’s incredibly easy to sit back and suggest changes to infrastructure. Smugness aside, nothing being said here is going to make the site come up.
- wongarsu 2y agoBecause this is a wordpress website, and two decades ago this seemed like a reasonable idea. And wordpress is the epitome of "good enough". There are plenty of wordpress plugins to fix this, but might forget setting it up until this happens to you