Comment by ehutch79

15k people, hitting a site that isn't actively changing content, shouldn't be bringing any webserver to it's knees.

- They've set the generated page to be uncachable with max-age=0 (https://developers.cloudflare.com/cache/concepts/default-cac...)

- nginx is clearly not caching dynamic resources (currently 22s (not ms) to respond)

- lots of 3rd party assets loading. Why are you loading stripe before I'm giving you money?

- why is there a random 'grey.webp' loading from this michelmeyer.whatever domain?

This isn't mastadon or cloudflare, it's a skill issue.