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Re:Show HN: Fontofweb – Discover Fonts Used on a Website or ... by jasoncartwright on Saturday May 31, 2025 @10:35AM (#44144553)
Might want to consider upgrading that VPS for a couple of days
Re:Show HN: Fontofweb – Discover Fonts Used on a Website or ... by sim04ful on Saturday May 31, 2025 @01:03PM (#44145571)
Haha, Just enabled an endpoint wide caching policy. Stale content, but should be a stopgap.
Re:Show HN: Fontofweb – Discover Fonts Used on a Website or ... by dylan604 on Saturday May 31, 2025 @01:13PM (#44145647)
must be a backend person! they were so proud to tell us about eliminating the cost of the scraping, but totally forgot about the cost of the user facing part of it. /s

it is hard to imagine how quickly "going viral" can swamp your system until you've been there, done that.