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by loloquwowndueo 2 days ago
> WordPress with a cache can handle on the order of 1k requests per second on the cheapest VPS money can buy. An actual proper static site would likely 10x that.

Yes we know - I still had my site knocked out a couple of times by overeager bots. They can be really abusive.
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AussieWog93 2 days ago
Wow, that's nuts. What sort of site was this? Mine don't get anything near this level of attention!
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loloquwowndueo 2 days ago
Just a personal blog, and I have to admit it had a misconfiguration that was my fault - nonexistent urls would redirect to the index. Still, dumb scraper bots would 1) not realize there was a redirect loop and kept trying every possible url, and 2) they were doing so aggressively enough that it brought the site down a couple of times. A well-behaved crawler would have slowed down and noticed the loop, never had issues with crawlers for years until the advent of ai.
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