So just as an experiment, I tried reposting our Threads federated post about our Ultimate Coffee Gear Wish List here via this account.
And yup, it took our website down for a few minutes. It's still down with all the card requests as I type this.
So no more of that, sadly.
The "host error" was our VPS rebooting itself after the big traffic bump over a few milliseconds.
@coffeegeek
This is not directed at you, or fedi, but why after 30+ years of experience with this, should a web server crash?
I can understand it becoming non-responsive, but why would anyone consider rebooting to be the proper way to handle a flood of requests?
@RealGene It's an auto setting. I could turn it off, but we leave it on. In some cases, it actually resolves issues quicker by doing so.
@coffeegeek @RealGene That's not resolving issues, that's brushing them underneath the carpet.
@coffeegeek Cloudflare should help with this if the page caching headers etc are set up correctly, without sending every request to your host.
You probably know that already, but do you know why it's not working as expected? Is it your Web software missing the headers?
@coffeegeek Sorry I owe you that fix... I've tested it, but ran out of spare time to write it up.