[00deadbeef]

It’s down now. If the typical hackernews traffic could all be queued up, how long would it take the ESP32 to finish processing it all?

[notRobot]

Does anyone have recent information on how much traffic being on the HN frontpage gets you? Would be helpful to know.

[mobilio]

15-20k but can be easy solved with CloudFlare full page cache rule

[yjftsjthsd-h]

Well yeah, anything is easy if your server isn't doing the work.

[mikercampbell]

“This website is run on an ESP32 chip that only cost $3 as for my proxy, I’m using distributed cluster of rack servers and relays”

[snvzz]

Likely possible to handle HN load just fine... if the page was static.

edit: page loaded. It's apparently Microdot, a micro web framework running on micropython.

[LoganDark]

That explains why it instantly fell over

[waveBidder]

it's currently dead

[osigurdson]

My website runs on baling twine and duct tape (...and CloudFlare).

[harry247]

I think it will drop most of the traffic, as I posted in load test results. The traffic coming to this is crazy. I can see nginx access logs and requests are not stopping!!

[korhojoa]

Why don't you configure the nginx that's in front to cache? I mean, it's still hosted on the device, it's just got a caching proxy in front, like all the big boys do.

[harry247]

Just did it !! Enabling 10m caching on nginx now (It is good atleast now the link will open from HN homepage). Thanks for suggesting this, I should have done it before

[harry247]

Its good idea, I never tried or probably didn't know much about nginx caching. Will Nginx cache webpage and serve directly without hitting much the esp32 server. I am going to read on it now