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I am confused as to how they could afford the bandwidth, atleast at the start, to host the animated gifs
by ionwake 10y ago
I am confused as to how they could afford the bandwidth, atleast at the start, to host the animated gifs
- rileymat2 10y agoI am not sure it would cost all that much with a CDN like cloudflare.
- Artemis2 10y agoCloudflare will not be happy if use them for image hosting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12825719 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12825719
- detaro 10y agoIf you overdo it, but for starting out it works. Giphy was founded in 2013 and raised several million in early 2014, at which point they probably could afford paying a CDN or for their own infrastructure.
- vidarh 10y agoCloudflare doesn't cache all that much. If your goal is to minimize bandwidth costs, you can throw together your own agressively caching CDNs on bargain basement hosts, though, and use a more expensive CDN or something like S3 as fallback (DNS with short TTL; it has all kinds of problems, but it's better than bankrupting yourself on high bandwidth until you have sufficient traffic to justify more elaborate cost reduction schemes). Once you reach sufficient scale: multihomed dedicated servers + peering wherever you have enough traffic. Or negotiated with various CDN providers while letting them know you've done the maths on your own dedicated setup.