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KevinJackson 7 points ago +7 / -0

Just some offhand advice:

-Increase your max tcp ports open -- the default is usually set around 16-30k, but you can up it to 65k -- this combined with TTL sets your max theoretical connections per second

-Set unix file ulimit to like 100k. Each tcp connection (and every process) is considered a "file" in unix, and therefore takes up a file slot

-Lower TTL on connections to something like 15 seconds to 20 seconds

-As you know, heavily cache in multiple areas. Your main page should be served by cache being warmed by a worker process updating all the caches.

-If you're using cloudflare, make sure all static files are set on a CDN and most importantly make sure you create a rule for the cdn subdomain to ALWAYS CACHE ignoring query string.

I ran a top 100 site in the U.S. on about $340/month on AWS. I feel your guys' pain, but it's very doable on a shoestring budget to deal with blitz traffic. There's a hundred other things you can do, but that will solve a lot of traffic woes for you.

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KevinJackson 1 point ago +1 / -0

You can read the new policy here: https://go.boarddocs.com/ca/sandi/Board.nsf/files/BU8VCU802554/$file/AR%205121%20Grades-Evaluation%20of%20Student%20Achievement%20-%20Redline.pdf

It doesn't contain anything about race (regardless of the desire to "combat racism").

Most of the policies include:

  1. Ways for students to redo work that was failing to receive a new grade
  2. Not having late work count against students' academic grade, but their "citizenship grade"
  3. Create a way to rehabilitate a student's "citizenship grade" when they're caught cheating
  4. How parents are notified when a student is receiving a D or F, and what happens then

To be honest, I didn't really see anything that stood out as bad to me.

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KevinJackson 7 points ago +7 / -0

Hey guys, I just added a coupon code "tdwpedes" for 10% off of the movie. Thanks so much for your support -- we're working on funding the next iteration of Bleeding Blue, and hopefully even building it out into a series.

If you want a direct link to the preview, go to https://www.bleedingbluemovie.com/watch and you can check out the first 10 minutes of the movie.

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KevinJackson 4 points ago +4 / -0

Thanks for your support, brother!

Edit: I'm sending you an extra watch code that you can pass to a friend, since you purchased before I posted the discount code.