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		GaggiX on June 11, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Reddit Strike Has Started Knowing the dev behind the site, he got 11k connections, the RAM finished and the server went down. It must be a pretty stressful coding session now.

low_tech_punk on June 11, 2023 [–]

I’d consider it a brand damage to Cloudflare too. Their CDN clearly couldn’t offload the sever traffic. Ideally they should just serve stale content while server recovers.

aendruk on June 11, 2023 | [–]

s/couldn’t/wasn’t configured to/. It’s not magic.

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