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Nov 3, 2017 · Cloud Computing

Handling Massive Traffic Spikes for a Forum Using Elastic Scaling, CDN, and Staticization on Tencent Cloud

To cope with a sudden, X5‑driven traffic surge that overwhelmed a migrated forum’s servers, the team enabled elastic scaling, redirected missing avatars with soft‑404 responses, off‑loaded avatar and post requests to a CDN, and created a pseudo‑static domain, allowing a single modest server to sustain massive loads.