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Interesting, thanks! You mention two VPSs for each: is load is shared across the two VPSs? Do they also have their own copy of the database, or is it one VM for php and stuff & one for the database? You mention "database services", maybe the database isn't even on these VPS?
Yeah details are at https://blog.cloudflare.com/caching-anonymous-page-views/. Think of it like Varnish Cache just using Cloudflare CDN cache edge servers as the caching servers
Right now about 70% of the content on LEB and LET are cached according to CF's backend. So no doubt that is helping. Either way, you suggestion is great and I am considering it.
It's active/passive because I didn't want to duplicate the past issues with the infamous cluster and database sync issues.
I tried to segregate things as much as possible but without complicating things too much while also working inside the budgets available (when I purchased LEB and LET in January 2020 the sites were making almost nothing, so I had to fund everything out of pocket).
Before BF/CM 2021 I plan to have the entire environment supercharged so that it will be prepared. I am expecting (hoping) that traffic a year from now is much higher than it is this year (which is already far exceeding expectations -- which makes me feel like folks are liking everything we've done to make improvements to LEB and LET in 2020).
We will be taking the site down for 2 minuets again here shortly to again double the resources on the LowEndTalk's host nodes from 16 Intel Gold Series Cores to 32.
Will advise once finished.
We should be in better shape now folks.
@jbiloh
I'd be interested to know what we're talking about in terms of requests per second.
Much better
The earlier attacks were a combination of easy vector (abusing search function -- now we have controls/blocks in place) and high PPS (stopped mostly by CF).
As for legit traffic today LowEndTalk alone did 825,000 page views (day still has 4 hours to go).