OpenFreeMap survived 100k requests per second
15 days ago
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- #Cloudflare
- OpenFreeMap experienced a sudden surge in traffic, reaching 3 billion requests in 24 hours, with spikes of 100,000 requests per second.
- The traffic surge was caused by a new collaborative drawing website, Wplace.live, which unexpectedly grew to 2 million users in a few days.
- Despite the massive traffic, OpenFreeMap's architecture held up well, with a 99.4% CDN cache rate and servers handling 1,000 requests per second.
- The developer of OpenFreeMap had to implement Cloudflare rules to limit traffic from Wplace.live to prevent service disruption for other users.
- The developer plans to implement bandwidth limiting by referer and improve server configurations to handle similar situations better in the future.
- OpenFreeMap runs on $500/month in donations, covering infrastructure costs, but more support is needed for further development.
- The developer offered to help Wplace.live set up a self-hosted OpenFreeMap instance to alleviate the load on the public instance.