[AusNOG] Anyone else notice the click frenzy traffic

[Joshua D'Alton]

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).

On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 8:47 PM, Martin Barry <marty at supine.com> wrote:

> $quoted_author = "Matthew VK3EVL" ;
> >
> > I wouldn't say it's dirt cheap. High volume websites do cost a bit
> > to run properly.
>
> I think the point was that they probably haven't even started with the
> basics, all of which are cheap or free if you have already built out the
> rest of the infrastructure. Along the lines of: preferring things to be
> static or cache-able; switching off heavy features under load...
>
> cheers
> Marty
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