@benjojo they've really fallen far from their peak I guess

@benjojo not to be that guy, but I noticed your blog is hosted on Cloudflare. is it possible they’re absorbing a lot of your traffic? (not sure how you’re measuring the RPS)

@xrisk @benjojo Oh. Using CloudFlare is definitly cheating.

(and disrespectful for the visitors, but that's my opinion and another subject)

@benjojo @xrisk Okay, so the graph show the real trafic in front of CloudFlare, and not after it, so your point stay valid (this quantity of traffic shouldn’t take down a website).

(and about the other subject, using CloudFlare in front of Google App Engine is twice as disrespectful 🤣)

@benjojo hmm ok bit looks like there are spikes to 10req/s...

@benjojo to be fair the us hasn't woken up yet

@benjojo Could they have touched a nerve and been hit with a DoS attack?

@benjojo it tells me that barely anybody, in fact, cares about HN.

Which is good, honestly. The only place that has worse comments than HN is probably Phoronix.

@benjojo hmmm, yeah, that also makes sense

@benjojo grotestquely inefficient blogging software like WordPress and its plugins that will often make 20+ MySQL queries per page load will do that to you.

BTW what is the web analytics software you use? I need to replace mine.

@benjojo one problem is, you talk of avarages, but having like 50 requests at the same second, additionally to your normal traffic can cascade down, even more if they then click through the side and hit multiple uncached pages and functionalities.

(Still should be able to handle it, but usually thats not part of the prioritieres compared to features)

@benjojo Reminded me of this: https://idiallo.com/blog/surviving-the-hug-of-death (amazing visualization)
I guess that in cases where the site goes down it wasn't just 1.5 loads per second (malicious or not).

@benjojo can confirm. I host on a relatively anemic server from home and my site hits HN a few times per year and I don't even notice.

@benjojo Interesting - sharing a link on Mastodon is about the same for 30-60 seconds and that a lot of site owners have huge problems with.

@troed @benjojo a year or so ago there was a discussion about that because someone was complaining that fediverse links would mean a ddos attack. I tried it out at that time and the out-of-the-box setup of wordpress gave up quickly on my 4core/8gb server.
https://mas.to/@freelon/112463814614563336

@benjojo
Huh, that's roughly where slashdotting were in the early 00s. Back then fine to serve perl cgis off a pentium pro server, if you didn't write too badly broken code.

@benjojo or, as in my case, you’re using Wordpress. :-)