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I figured this day was coming. Excellent writeup. Sorry to see it go. Thanks for all the raw fish. Sounds like the cost of hosting this were not insignificant.

I figured this day was coming. Excellent writeup. Sorry to see it go. Thanks for all the raw fish. Sounds like the cost of hosting this were not insignificant. Curious how was this financed. EDIT: To answer my own question, I found the FAQ page, which is also great: https://github.com/rgrove/rawgit/blob/master/FAQ.md https://github.com/rgrove/rawgit/blob/master/FAQ.md Sounds like donations helped (maybe). Oh and Stackpath. Kudos to them, too.

codefined 8y ago
> It's super nice of you to offer, but I don't need any donations at this time. RawGit's server costs are minimal, and the lovely people at StackPath provide RawGit's CDN service free of charge. Thank you though!
rgrove 8y ago
Hi! I'm the guy behind RawGit. I've actually never accepted donations. I paid the meager cost of the $10/month DigitalOcean droplet for the origin server, and StackPath (formerly MaxCDN) sponsored the CDN, which handled the majority of RawGit's traffic. Once, I worked out how much the CDN bill would have been if StackPath hadn't sponsored me and my head nearly exploded. So yeah, I definitely couldn't have done it without them!
- tardyp 8y ago
  Maxcdn must be very happy with all the data they gather with your project... I stopped using all those cdn based js deliver service when I saw all the cookies they were adding to my user's browsers.
  - rgrove 8y ago
    StackPath doesn't add any cookies to cdn.rawgit.com responses. Here are the complete headers from a sample response: HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2018 17:56:30 GMT Content-Type: application/json;charset=utf-8 Transfer-Encoding: chunked Connection: close X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff X-Robots-Tag: none Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * ETag: "9c153866d0cad7024c0f31eb7b65be11582a6737" Cache-Control: max-age=86400 Vary: Accept-Encoding RawGit-Cache-Status: HIT Server: NetDNA-cache/2.2 Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=31536000; preload X-Cache: HIT
    - snthd 8y ago
      Possibly - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_ETag#Tracking_using_ETags https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_ETag#Tracking_using_ETags
      - Maxious 8y ago
        The ETags are identical to those from Github: $ curl -I https://cdn.rawgit.com/sindresorhus/awesome/master/readme.md https://cdn.rawgit.com/sindresorhus/awesome/master/readme.md etag: "1218d241f6c717fa83d0f1afa64809d6ce7451c8" $ curl -I https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sindresorhus/awesome/master/readme.md https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sindresorhus/awesome/maste... ETag: "1218d241f6c717fa83d0f1afa64809d6ce7451c8"
- wumms 8y ago
  How much would the bill have been? Rough estimate: 176TB per month: $3.500 to $4.200.
  - rgrove 8y ago
    It was a while ago now so my memory is hazy, but that sounds about right.
- jdorfman 8y ago
  It was a pleasure working with you on this Ryan. You did an amazing job.
  - rgrove 8y ago
    Thanks Justin! Likewise.
- tim333 8y ago
  Did you consider trying to sell the thing to GitHub or GitLab? That many users must be worth something I'd imagine.

codefined 8y ago

> It's super nice of you to offer, but I don't need any donations at this time. RawGit's server costs are minimal, and the lovely people at StackPath provide RawGit's CDN service free of charge. Thank you though!

rgrove 8y ago

Hi! I'm the guy behind RawGit. I've actually never accepted donations. I paid the meager cost of the $10/month DigitalOcean droplet for the origin server, and StackPath (formerly MaxCDN) sponsored the CDN, which handled the majority of RawGit's traffic. Once, I worked out how much the CDN bill would have been if StackPath hadn't sponsored me and my head nearly exploded. So yeah, I definitely couldn't have done it without them!

tardyp 8y ago
Maxcdn must be very happy with all the data they gather with your project... I stopped using all those cdn based js deliver service when I saw all the cookies they were adding to my user's browsers.
- rgrove 8y ago
  StackPath doesn't add any cookies to cdn.rawgit.com responses. Here are the complete headers from a sample response: HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2018 17:56:30 GMT Content-Type: application/json;charset=utf-8 Transfer-Encoding: chunked Connection: close X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff X-Robots-Tag: none Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * ETag: "9c153866d0cad7024c0f31eb7b65be11582a6737" Cache-Control: max-age=86400 Vary: Accept-Encoding RawGit-Cache-Status: HIT Server: NetDNA-cache/2.2 Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=31536000; preload X-Cache: HIT
  - snthd 8y ago
    Possibly - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_ETag#Tracking_using_ETags https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_ETag#Tracking_using_ETags
    - Maxious 8y ago
      The ETags are identical to those from Github: $ curl -I https://cdn.rawgit.com/sindresorhus/awesome/master/readme.md https://cdn.rawgit.com/sindresorhus/awesome/master/readme.md etag: "1218d241f6c717fa83d0f1afa64809d6ce7451c8" $ curl -I https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sindresorhus/awesome/master/readme.md https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sindresorhus/awesome/maste... ETag: "1218d241f6c717fa83d0f1afa64809d6ce7451c8"
wumms 8y ago
How much would the bill have been? Rough estimate: 176TB per month: $3.500 to $4.200.
- rgrove 8y ago
  It was a while ago now so my memory is hazy, but that sounds about right.
jdorfman 8y ago
It was a pleasure working with you on this Ryan. You did an amazing job.
- rgrove 8y ago
  Thanks Justin! Likewise.
tim333 8y ago
Did you consider trying to sell the thing to GitHub or GitLab? That many users must be worth something I'd imagine.