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kev, 9 hours ago

@joel Nope

kev, 20 hours ago

My site stayed up. Woohoo! 🎉

kev, 20 hours ago

@robb I think it did.

kev, 19 hours ago

@leadegroot yeah, I’m gonna revisit the whole random posts thing in the future. For now, the button will do.

kev, 19 hours ago

@webaware Exactly. It’s all relative, right?

kev, 9 hours ago

@daniel I’d assume so, but can’t say for certain. All depends on the infra the static site is running on. 🤷‍♂️

kev, 2 days ago

@shellsharks I imagine static sites can probably handle the load better as they’re usually hosted entirely on a CDN. So I imagine that pain is far less.

kev, 2 days ago

@aqunt @lehi Nah, I was just being flippant. Clearly I need to use more emojis. 😊

kev, 2 days ago

@aqunt @lehi Boosts won’t affect it though. It’s when the link is first posted that’s the problem. When someone boosts it, unless the person boosting has a tonne of followers on instances that haven’t already “seen” the link, it won’t make a difference.

kev, 2 days ago

@JoeRess Nope, Kirby (still PHP based, but a lot lighter than WP). Nginx sits in front of apache for cache and there’s a load of resources free on the server.

kev, 2 days ago

@JoeRess I am.

kev, 2 days ago

Few people asking what my server resources look like during one of these events. Some graphs attached. For reference, the post was created on Mastodon at 15:31.

I have a 2GB RAM VPS from Ionos (https://www.ionos.co.uk/servers/vps#packages).

I’m not a SysAdmin, so if there’s something I can do short of getting a mahoosive server, I’m all ears, folks. :)

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kev, 2 days ago

@JoeRess fingers crossed. I was hoping a CDN for the image would sort it, as that’s the lion’s share of the data that these requests pull, but it seems it’s the number of requests, rather than the size in KB. :(

kev, 2 days ago

@hugopoi Network usage in terms of what? Like throughput?

It’s a Plesk server running Apache and Nginx as a proxy. I’m using Kirby as my CMS, so it’s Linux (Ubuntu 22.04) and PHP (8.3). Kirby is flat-file, so no DB involved. It’s all cached by Kirby too.

kev, 2 days ago

@valerauko @JoeRess It’s based on followe numbers. I never had this problem when I had a few hundred followers, or even a couple thousand, but now I’m at ~26,000 it’s a problem.

I’m not sure at what point that pendulum swings, but it’s certainly a problem for users with more followers. I don’t know how many followers you have, so can’t comment on that.

kev, 2 days ago

@alyx That’s not how my site works. It uses a flat file CMS, so no DB and it caches everything. So, as you said, everything is read from memory.

kev, 2 days ago

@signaleleven

kev, 2 days ago

@getkirby Worth noting that I am using th standard caching option instead. So there’s some caching going on.

kev, 2 days ago

@getkirby I’ve tried staticache in the past, but it gave me problems (can’t remember what they were). I’ve just re-enabled it and I don’t appear to be having any problems now, so I’ll test it next time I post a link here.

kev, 2 days ago

@jbaty Well, yeah. There’s nothing wrong with a plain old link, is there?

kev, 2 days ago

@getkirby I have a few more things I wanna test, like Varnish and a couple other cache solutions, then I’ll likely write a follow up post about it, which (hopefully) won’t bring my site down. 😂

kev, 2 days ago

@ThirstyGayGeek @alyx Great point, I completely forgot about that little box. It’s a snippet of php that takes my post titles, randomises them, then picks the first 3.

I’m gonna do some testing with that box removed. Thanks.

kev, 19 hours ago

@kev It’s hard to tell from pictures as to how thick they will be. These should fit though (I’ve bought them in the past and they worked). You need 18mm.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/271282242650