Re:Cloudflare was down
by arghwhat on Friday July 17, 2020 @06:47PM
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Huge numbers of users don't really mean that much. Bandwidth is the main cost, but that's kept low by having a simple design.
Serving the same content several times in a row requires very few resources - remember, reads far outnumber writes, so even dynamic comment pages will be served many times in between changes. 5.5 million page views a day is only 64 views a second, which isn't that hard to serve.
As for the writes, as long as significant serialization is avoided, it is a non-issue.
(The vast majority of websites could easily be designed to be as efficient.)
Serving the same content several times in a row requires very few resources - remember, reads far outnumber writes, so even dynamic comment pages will be served many times in between changes. 5.5 million page views a day is only 64 views a second, which isn't that hard to serve.
As for the writes, as long as significant serialization is avoided, it is a non-issue.
(The vast majority of websites could easily be designed to be as efficient.)