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Outside of DoS'ing (which is admittedly Cloudflare's wheelhouse, but a rare concern if you aren't posting anything controversial or in a highly competitive spac
by cirno 6y ago
Outside of DoS'ing (which is admittedly Cloudflare's wheelhouse, but a rare concern if you aren't posting anything controversial or in a highly competitive space), you can host a site on a $5/month VPS and very trivially withstand being the top post on HN, making Reddit r/all, etc. Not even 10% CPU utilization at peak. And that's without even going to the extreme of making your site static.
- toohotatopic 6y agoNow do the same with video streaming ...
- cirno 6y agoFair point. That would definitely be a challenge.
- ocdtrekkie 6y agoAh, but my example was far more decentralized than a VPS provider: I like being able to run something safely from my own house. (Probably the only issue I currently hit doing this is that my ISP forbids me to use well-known ports, and Cloudflare will neither provide free CDN on a non-standard port, nor allow me to do any sort of redirecting to another port using their free service.)