Mastodon’s link previews are causing downtime for web servers without properly configured caching, locking down DNS inside Windows networks, why using write-once backup media is a bad idea, and increasing the performance of a Microsoft SQL Server with SSDs and ZFS.
@25admins I thought the discussion around the Mastodon stampede problem really missed the mark. If we want a more independent and decentralized Internet, then the barrier to entry should be as low as possible. Someone just wanting to write a WordPress blog about their home garden shouldn't have to know what caching is to avoid downtime. It's disheartening to hear technical people immediately suggest solutions on the external side rather than analyse the internal problem.
@jaibreadcat@25admins a non-technical person who wants a garden blog isn't going to host it on a VPS. They'd host it on something like WordPress.com. Your example isn't a very good one.
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