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How to keep the servers running when your Mastodon goes viral

The Stack Overflow Podcast

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How to Transfer Hot Data to Digital Ocean

The more people used our service, the faster we got our data off of the racks and into digital ocean. So as you know, topics are trending and people are like looking at different things, that's the data that was getting moved to digital ocean first. And so basically every time somebody loaded a cat video on their phone, it would download the video from the server and serve the traffic from there for up to 24 hours. The next time somebody tried to view the cat picture, it would actually receive from digital ocean instead of from our server here.

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