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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
by 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 agoMaxcdn 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 agoStackPath 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 agoPossibly - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_ETag#Tracking_using_ETags https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_ETag#Tracking_using_ETags
- Maxious 8y agoThe 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 agoHow much would the bill have been? Rough estimate: 176TB per month: $3.500 to $4.200.
- rgrove 8y agoIt was a while ago now so my memory is hazy, but that sounds about right.
- jdorfman 8y agoIt was a pleasure working with you on this Ryan. You did an amazing job.
- rgrove 8y agoThanks Justin! Likewise.
- tim333 8y agoDid you consider trying to sell the thing to GitHub or GitLab? That many users must be worth something I'd imagine.