Indeed, even something as simple as cloudflare can turn a fail-site into a world-class one with a few clicks. Obviously not the case for every site, but even just the caching provided that reduces network utilisation (which I believe is what is the cause of this outage).<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 8:47 PM, Martin Barry <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:marty@supine.com" target="_blank">marty@supine.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
$quoted_author = "Matthew VK3EVL" ;<br>
<div class="im">><br>
> I wouldn't say it's dirt cheap. High volume websites do cost a bit<br>
> to run properly.<br>
<br>
</div>I think the point was that they probably haven't even started with the<br>
basics, all of which are cheap or free if you have already built out the<br>
rest of the infrastructure. Along the lines of: preferring things to be<br>
static or cache-able; switching off heavy features under load...<br>
<br>
cheers<br>
Marty<br>
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