[cori]

We love to see these sorts of projects running on Glitch with OR without a paid account!

We do have some default protections in place to prevent (even accidentally) problematic projects from taking too many shared resources.

We've temporarily removed those barriers for this project since it was getting such a big hug. It should stay up and be Remixable now.

disclaimer: I'm on the engineering team at Glitch.

[kragen]

okay but this was maybe a few hundred thousand requests over about an hour for 536 bytes of html and two js files of respectively 2232 bytes and 2667 bytes

like, an old netbook could serve up all those requests in 100 milliseconds with apache

on a 9600 baud modem (5 kilobytes 300_000 times an hour is under 4 kilobits per second)

are you hosting glitch.me on an amiga 500 on dialup in zimbabwe or something

[cori]

I won't go into a ton of specifics, but we talk about the general limitations for projects here: https://help.glitch.com/kb/article/17-technical-restrictions...

[kragen]

it sounds like you accidentally set your request rate limit about four orders of magnitude lower than the other limits, because you set them to 4000 requests per hour, which is about a ten-millionth of a laptop

by contrast the 512 megabytes of ram is about a 64th of a laptop and the 712 megabytes of disk is about a thousandth of a laptop

this results in absurd situations like this one, where a purely static web app collapsed under a load you could literally handle on a commodore 64 on dialup

well, i guess with tls you might need a 25-MHz 386 on dialup