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by astrojams 5037 days ago
Why wouldn't this site use Cloudflare or WPEngine to prevent getting slashdoted?
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Because they're not a blogging company, they're a software company. I'm betting they aren't too concerned with tweaking Wordpress performance as they are with building the things that actually make them money.
My hindsight is super clear as well, what's with these guys?
Or nginx/apache with static html.