Post #1796202
2026-04-23 00:29 UTC
my nbn almost melted as you can see in this traffic graph from my home router
fortunately I already had nginx on a AU$3.50 vps sitting in front of everything, so I put some quick proxy_cache config in there to handle the static content.
a total of 8.7 million requests so far, 1.4 million through to my home. I don't think anything fell over!
Replies (4)
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@hailey@hails.org 2026-04-23 04:31
traffic to ext (my public facing nginx) and mastodon, you can very clearly see the effect of the quick and dirty proxy_cache config i added last night
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@duncan_bayne@mastodon.bsd.cafe 2026-04-23 01:11
@hailey Well handled 👏 Also makes me wonder, again, at the level of needless complexity and expense I've seen at some places over the years ...
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@flaki@flaki.social 2026-04-23 04:37
@hailey I have a very similar setup and has been meaning to configure caching for years… I guess as long as I carefully avoid being dropped on the orange site front page I can continue this blissful procrastination indefinitely 🤓
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@akent@aus.social 2026-04-23 04:40
@hailey FWIW I did get a connection refused clicking on the direct link to your Masto post from HN earlier but must have been pretty transitory.