@j @phen314 To note at least in my case the instance was primarily slow because of the concurrent number of connections; it wasn't CPU or IO or database constrained,I used up the max number of sockets allocated to the service and things had to wait in line behind slow connections; had I configured the proxy with a larger inbound connection pool I may have been fine; but that just potentially opens me up to a different kind of DDoS 🤷

If it happens more frequently I will try to tune it better.