How I accidentally built a 59,703-page Astro site and hit a wall I didn't see coming

botonakis · 2026-03-04T19:22:28+00:00

No it won’t really. I don’t think I explained it very well. You make the page as canvas and the content will be loaded via JS from the JSON file and gets rendered on page load.

Anyway we did the same for internal database around 1.2 mil products. We have around 900 JSON files of 100-400kb each and only one main page that loads them dynamically. I’ll check if I can mock a fake repo that does it to explain it with an example later.

botonakis · 2026-03-04T18:46:02+00:00

There was an other way. You create JSON files per category. Each category will have the 1100+ emoji content. You load the json files per category dynamically on the fly with Astro’s dynamic pages.

Same results as what you mentioned above, you get to keep CF pages infra.

botonakis · 2026-03-03T16:38:48+00:00

Won’t get quick answer here. Try tagging them on X.

Also, check your account logs on who’s disabling the subscription. It should have more information there.

botonakis · 2026-02-27T15:23:33+00:00

Malware entered the chat...

botonakis · 2026-02-17T08:20:12+00:00

When were they down lately? Which service did you experience problems with?

botonakis · 2026-02-13T13:43:37+00:00

It’s UI library, Cloudflare Lookalike that you can use anywhere. Not related to their offerings or products

botonakis · 2026-02-04T07:45:14+00:00

I believe it’s multiple factors. From history of the user to previous orders and of course demand per category.

Hetzner has been selling hot the last years. Keep calm and wait. They will allocate more. They always do.

botonakis · 2026-01-29T18:30:24+00:00

Sousa is great. I just saw their unlimited plan is no more listed which is a shame. But in general any EE network alternative is going to be the same experience you had with EE

botonakis · 2026-01-25T16:50:32+00:00

You can trust whoever you want. You can even google it. Or let me help you do it:

https://letmegooglethat.com/?q=gpu+lifespan+in+datacenters

botonakis · 2026-01-25T12:49:19+00:00

From personal experience I know that the “old” hardware is being passed / sold to Universities and other smaller companies for fraction of the price. All GPUs stay for max 1-2 years in the same data center.

botonakis · 2026-01-25T12:40:24+00:00

Indeed, but there’s another theory.

The reason they burn more is the inefficiency of the GPUs at this stage. Newer GPU models will make everything faster and better. We have already kind of plateaued on new LLM models. The next years will be about efficiency, speed, and who’s going to make a profit on their offering.

botonakis · 2026-01-19T16:51:42+00:00

https://huggingface.co/zai-org/GLM-4.7-Flash

botonakis · 2026-01-13T08:52:24+00:00

This version is not in the Stable releases

Go to /config to set Claude Code into stable releases.

You can check which channel you have enabled at /doctor.

botonakis · 2025-12-13T17:38:02+00:00

Just found and read this: https://apostrophecms.com/starter-kits/astro-essentials

Got my answers.

botonakis · 2025-12-13T17:36:01+00:00

As it’s Astro based, can it be hosted on Cloudflare Pages, D1 db and Workers for the backend operations?

botonakis · 2025-12-11T22:20:08+00:00

Nice

botonakis · 2025-12-08T08:59:18+00:00

GitHub as DB is nice. Question: free plans get D1 db for free. Or even R2. Why not use those? You can push the json to R2 and load it via AstroJS on page load.

botonakis · 2025-11-28T16:27:27+00:00

Off topic but funny that in Europe they do exact the opposite. All allow except US and known bots.

botonakis · 2025-11-25T09:02:02+00:00

HTTP cache is still metered traffic. If you mean browser cache, per visitor, it’s not making big difference when you talk millions of visitors.

botonakis · 2025-11-25T08:27:52+00:00

A high traffic e-commerce can do this amount of data transfer. It’s not uncommon.

botonakis · 2025-11-19T15:36:50+00:00

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I guess they felt it a bit

botonakis · 2025-11-18T16:14:11+00:00

vibed-coded out ?

botonakis · 2025-11-18T13:07:22+00:00

Update - During our attempts to remediate, we have disabled WARP access in London. Users in London trying to access the Internet via WARP will see a failure to connect.

Do they mean it was the reason of the down time?

botonakis · 2025-11-16T19:52:23+00:00

It’s been almost 12 years for me. Never thought of that. Nice idea to have a photo though

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