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Knowing the dev behind the site, he got 11k connections, the RAM finished and the server went down.

It must be a pretty stressful coding session now.

I’d consider it a brand damage to Cloudflare too. Their CDN clearly couldn’t offload the sever traffic. Ideally they should just serve stale content while server recovers.

s/couldn’t/wasn’t configured to/. It’s not magic.

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