I’m the sysadmin for beehaw.org and our user-base has almost tripled in 24 hours. Our site has been crashing so much over this time period.
We do have some volunteers that are trying to figure out a reasonable solution for when this happens again four weeks from now.
Do you have any recommendations?
Some of the discussion of it is here. I was staunchly pro websocket, but it’s become too much work to maintain, and doesn’t scale well.