Good evening readers, the week is drawing to a close and we are pretty happy with everything that has happened since launch. That said, into the nitty gritty of the next episode in my techie babble about what makes the Demon Archives run behind the scenes.
Do any of you use Reddit? There is a saying on Reddit that happens when they link to somebodies website. That saying is that the site was “Reddited” which means burned into a fiery cinder and left sobbing in the corner by the sheer onslaught of traffic. You see servers can only handle so much traffic before they just up and die on you, they start rejecting and failing to load, then if it gets to bad the server can destabilize and requires a reboot… this is nasty and is actually a technique used to attack people’s websites called DDOS (distributed denial of service). There are lots of ways to mitigate the benign onslaught of traffic, caching, speedier pages, multiple servers, content distribution networks, minifying, etc. Read more