Just adjusted caching settings on my site. Hopefully this will fix the issue of Mastodon bringing down my site (RAM at 100%) a post gets linked to.
Apropos of nothing - this is what happens to my homepage website *every time* someone boosts one of my posts, simply because I have it linked into my profile.. I will do another #MastoDDos blog post on this when I get around to it, as the traffic to my site is something else - bursts of 300-odd requests in a few seconds :)
I mean my site can handle it now but I'm guessing not everyone's can. And this will only get worse as more server instances are added - I don't even have many followers!
OK so I've hopefully made my home page a bit more performant now, let's see if it can stand up to the next #MastoDDoS just from me posting / replying to someone.
I think I've uncovered a second #mastoddos effect. I recently added a little website link to my Mastodon profile, and now every time I post, or reply, it gets a stack of GET requests for the home page.
Earlier today I got a reply from @Gargron which obviously will have gone to a huge number of Mastodon servers - my poor little web box couldn't cope - it looks like it's had something close to 2000 requests within a few seconds.
The URL wasn't referenced in the post, only in my profile.