Hey! I have a little node.js app on App Platform that hosts a webpage with some mp3 files and a websocket connection to my server. This used to work fine up until today. After pushing a new build (with no updates to networking code), I notice that the page loads extremly slow, even a 1.2mb audiofile takes 2 minutes to load.
Checking my Dashboard Insight graphs I see that CPU and Memory usage are at 10% while Ingress Average Latency is at 100 seconds. Checking the responses in my browser it shows that 99.9% of the time it spends in ‘Waiting’.
I checked and tried multiple things (adding / removing CDN for files, hosting at a different location, upgrading server to dedicated cpu with more ram)
Right now I don’t know if the problem is on my side and how I could track it down or if there is a problem with the App Platform server or Cloudflare that’s causing these huge load times.
Any advice would be helpful, Thanks!
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Hey Maurice 👋
Is this still happening on your end? There was scheduled maintenance in the NYC1 region that affected App Platform and networking around that time, might be related:
If things are still slow now, it might be worth opening a support ticket so they can check your specific app instance.
Let me know how it goes!
- Bobby
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