How to waste bandwidth, battery power, and annoy sysadmins

Re:How to waste bandwidth, battery power, and annoy sysadmins by yosefk on Saturday June 29, 2024 @04:28AM (#40828692)

404s have got to be very cheap to serve

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Re:How to waste bandwidth, battery power, and annoy sysadmins by chiph on Saturday June 29, 2024 @08:01AM (#40829778)

Not when you're on a metered connection, or on a high latency one.

Don't make your customers pay for your sloppy habits is a good policy to have.

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Re:How to waste bandwidth, battery power, and annoy sysadmins by fnord123 on Saturday June 29, 2024 @02:43PM (#40832595)

If the CDN returns a 404 or the origin server, then your satellite phone is still waiting.

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Re:How to waste bandwidth, battery power, and annoy sysadmins by bandrami on Saturday June 29, 2024 @06:49AM (#40829293)

But they aren't always!

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