Lightning Talk: Maaah! How I Killed My Site With a Goat GIF
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Personal site meganvoss.com runs Wagtail 2.13 on a DigitalOcean Ubuntu droplet with Gunicorn and nginx, 512 MB droplet and 10 GB SSD, and publishing a small goat GIF repeatedly crashes the site; the culprit is GIF frame rate causing heavy server CPU/memory churn, not just file size. A snapshot backup restores the site, rewriting the post is faster than debugging, and practical fixes are convert GIFs to video, avoid high-frame-rate animated GIFs.
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