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Re:Hacker News down, unwisely returning HTTP 200 for outage ... by ricardobeat on Monday January 06, 2014 @10:48PM (#7015341)
I seriously doubt Cloudflare's behaviour would be that stupid, wouldn't it momentarily cache error pages instead of hammering the server? At a minimum it would throttle/prevent concurrent requests.
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Re:Hacker News down, unwisely returning HTTP 200 for outage ... by cbhl on Tuesday January 07, 2014 @10:59AM (#7017937)
Unfortunately, it took me 12 hours to find out the site was back up because the outage page had been cached for me. I had to realize I had to do a hard-refresh of the page.
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Re:Hacker News down, unwisely returning HTTP 200 for outage ... by ricardobeat on Tuesday January 07, 2014 @01:25PM (#7018839)
That's only because HN set a 10 year expiration header, as pointed out by the article.
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