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Please Don’t Share Our Links on Mastodon: Here’s Why! | itsfoss.com (mastodon.social)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

I'm confused about what is actually causing the load.

Thousands of instances simultaneously fetching link previews from a VPS w/2GB RAM.

https://mastodon.social/@itsfoss/112369476450719989

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

If caching is properly configured, the cache (Cloudflare) will see thousands of requests, but the VPS should only see one request.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

This should be front and center, caching won’t be able to make up for that…

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Of course it will, cloudflare is in front of it, they can definitely handje this traffic as long as itsfoss bothers to set correct caching headers for cloudflare to use. That's the entire point of cloudflare...