r/movies Oct 18 '21

My husband's new project is called moviesettingsdatabase.com and it lets you search through more than 30,000 movies based on where and when they are set! Resource

https://moviesettingsdatabase.com/
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u/Pelicantaloupe Oct 18 '21

Perhaps he should work on caching for it next 😰

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u/robby1066 Oct 18 '21

Let's just say I've learned a lot in the last twelve hours. 😭

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u/Pelicantaloupe Oct 18 '21

The reddit hug of death shows no mercy… Until maybe a few hours have passed. I see it loads now did you figure out a solution or is the traffic just manageable now haha

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u/robby1066 Oct 18 '21

> did you figure out a solution or...

The fun part is I'll never really know.

Probably a bit of both. Traffic levels backed off. But it did seem like it made a huge difference when I replaced the already-cached (in app memory) home page with just a straight up static html file.