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comment by scriptingsoul
scriptingsoul  ·  3785 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Hubski Downtime Two: Electric Boogaloo: 503s for Me and You

I've never heard of that http/https switching method. I'd think larger websites would benefit from it, but does varnish cache frequently enough to not hinder lurkers?





forwardslash  ·  3784 days ago  ·  link  ·  

It's actually something I picked up from the reddit devs. We only cache pages for 1 minute, so it really just helps ward off huge spikes in external traffic (which we get from time to time) but for some reason it held onto this one record for two and a half days.