OPENFREEMAP SURVIVED 100,000 REQUESTS PER SECOND

Summary from the TLDR Web Dev newsletter

The creator of OpenFreeMap was surprised to discover a massive surge in traffic, reaching 100,000 requests per second, due to a new collaborative drawing website called Wplace.live built on top of OpenFreeMap. This unexpected load caused some tiles to fail, but the service remarkably managed to handle most of the traffic. To help mitigate this traffic, they implemented a Cloudflare rule to limit Wplace.live's traffic and offered to help them set up their own self-hosted OpenFreeMap instance.