Did the preview site just go down for everyone?

[–] Skyrock 2 points (+2|-0)

It's live for me. Access has been occassionally spotty and slow, probably as more users learn about it from Reddit, the Chans and Phuks and put more strain on it.

[–] Skeeterdo [OP] 1 points (+1|-0)

Right when I made this post it came back up. Went down for about 30 mins for me.

Was expecting the worst.

I'm assuming this preview site isn't made for large amounts of traffic?

[–] E-werd 2 points (+2|-0)

The normal site is cached. The preview site is not. That means every click hits the database directly. That’s very costly to performance.

[–] Skeeterdo [OP] 0 points (+0|-0)

Interesting. I'll leave the post up at least people know it's active.

[–] registereduser -1 points (+0|-1)

Access has been occassionally spotty and slow, probably as more users learn about it from Reddit,

LMAO.

while :; do lynxd https://preview.voat.co/; sleep 1; done

[–] Skyrock 1 points (+1|-0)

https://www.reddit.com/r/VoatFreely/comments/8dh96i/the_preview_version_of_voat_is_still_accessible/

Reddit has the link if you know where to search.

[–] registereduser -1 points (+0|-1)

Hehe, I know where it is.

That bit I posted was a way to tie up their server with endless requests one per second.

Not that I'd ever do such a thing or recommend it to such a fine site as voat. LMAO.

[–] xyzzy 2 points (+2|-0)

Works for me, but people had this problem before.

[–] Skeeterdo [OP] 0 points (+0|-0)

Yeah I had a 30 min outage. Obviously when you make a post it comes right back up :)

Did the preview site just go down for everyone?

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