eb,
@eb@social.coop avatar

If an absolute maximum of 18k fedi servers (probably way less than 10k) making requests 2 requests to your server (so they can download the OG image you decided to make) can bring it down for hours, maybe your server configuration is the problem.

xahteiwi,
@xahteiwi@mastodon.social avatar

@eb I had that same thought. Assuming this is about the It's FOSS article that, um, they're asking us not to link to?

eb,
@eb@social.coop avatar

Some basic truths

  1. Wordpress was a serious mistake
  2. To bandaid this mistake, you can cache images and selectively cache HTML with very minimal configuration
  3. If you are going broke from the bandwidth, you chose a bad hosting provider
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