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[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

it happend 2 Saterdays in a row, why not 3?

[–]magnora7 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

Are you sure? I didn't notice that pattern... /u/d3rr is he on to something here?

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

yes, there is a Saturday /s/mmastreams pattern... or near pattern, it takes 3 to make a trend.

[–]magnora7 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Ah well interesting. I guess our downtimes are traffic-related then for sure

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Yeah check out the 30 day traffic graph in CloudFlare... The last 2 Saturdays are huge x3 or x4 spikes.

[–]magnora7 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Ah gotcha, good catch

[–]VantaFount 0 insightful - 1 fun0 insightful - 0 fun1 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

So if we continue to host that content, (or links to that content,) some level of Load Balancing is going to be needed.
I'm recommending we no longer to allow such links; I also know that this compromises a part of who we are.