Comment by rkangel

2 days ago

The irony is that I went to read this article and encountered the Cloudflare error "521: Web server is down".

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halamadrid  2 days ago

I don't think it was designed to handle the volume of traffic that HN generates.

  • executesorder66  2 days ago

    A Cloudflare fronted website can't handle HN frontpage levels of traffic?

    Then why does anybody use cloudflare?

    • tecleandor  2 days ago

      Probably bad cache headers configuration. Even with Cloudflare in front it could be forwarding every request to the backend if the cache headers are misconfigured...