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As a scrub in this domain. When I use a CDN, I get a network that is cheaper per-GB at delivering content, and is better at delivering content. Far more resou

As a scrub in this domain. When I use a CDN, I get a network that is cheaper per-GB at delivering content, and is better at delivering content. Far more resources in a CDN are configured to deliver content faster and cheaper than whatever rinky-dink EC2 I've got serving the website.

heartbeats 6y ago
Just how much JavaScript do you have to use for it to make it a significant difference? If you serve 100k of JS (please don't), at 1 million hits per month you're looking at 100GB. Even at EC2's obscene pricing, this is still just $10/month. If you're that stingy, why aren't you just putting the entire website behind CloudFlare and calling it a day?
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- MrStonedOne 6y ago
  I have a js file that is over 900kb, (nearing a mb) Given, its for use in embedded webviews of a video game, and it powers like 50 different atomic interfaces via react.
alynn 6y ago
I wasn't aware that CDNs were much cheaper, and am genuinely curious what service you are using at what prices. When I look at AWS pricing, us-east-1 at < 10TB, I see: EC2 data transfer out to the internet is 9¢/GB, and Cloudfront is 8.5¢/GB for the lowest price class. That's a slight savings, but at 6% I can't justify the effort to switch over on cost alone. Should I be looking at a different CDN service?
- coder543 6y ago
  Cloudflare famously charges $0/GB, with some arbitrary restrictions on the way you use their service, and I’ve heard rumors of soft limits on the total amount of bandwidth you can use before they email you to upgrade to a higher plan. I’ve never used BunnyCDN, but they charge a flat $0.01/GB for North American traffic, and I’ve heard some good things about them. DigitalOcean, Vultr, Linode, and some other cloud providers charge $0.01/GB without a CDN, just using their regular servers, but obviously a CDN is more than just a way to save money — it’s a way to lower latency and improve user experience. The mega clouds (AWS, Azure, and GCP) seem to significantly over-charge for egress bandwidth as a nice profit mechanism, just because they can. My unpopular opinion is that mega clouds are overrated. They’re fine, but they have a lot of weird gotchas that most people have just accepted as “how the cloud works.”
- amadeuspagel 6y ago
  Vercel is free.

heartbeats 6y ago

Just how much JavaScript do you have to use for it to make it a significant difference? If you serve 100k of JS (please don't), at 1 million hits per month you're looking at 100GB. Even at EC2's obscene pricing, this is still just $10/month. If you're that stingy, why aren't you just putting the entire website behind CloudFlare and calling it a day?

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MrStonedOne 6y ago
I have a js file that is over 900kb, (nearing a mb) Given, its for use in embedded webviews of a video game, and it powers like 50 different atomic interfaces via react.

alynn 6y ago

I wasn't aware that CDNs were much cheaper, and am genuinely curious what service you are using at what prices. When I look at AWS pricing, us-east-1 at < 10TB, I see: EC2 data transfer out to the internet is 9¢/GB, and Cloudfront is 8.5¢/GB for the lowest price class. That's a slight savings, but at 6% I can't justify the effort to switch over on cost alone. Should I be looking at a different CDN service?

coder543 6y ago
Cloudflare famously charges $0/GB, with some arbitrary restrictions on the way you use their service, and I’ve heard rumors of soft limits on the total amount of bandwidth you can use before they email you to upgrade to a higher plan. I’ve never used BunnyCDN, but they charge a flat $0.01/GB for North American traffic, and I’ve heard some good things about them. DigitalOcean, Vultr, Linode, and some other cloud providers charge $0.01/GB without a CDN, just using their regular servers, but obviously a CDN is more than just a way to save money — it’s a way to lower latency and improve user experience. The mega clouds (AWS, Azure, and GCP) seem to significantly over-charge for egress bandwidth as a nice profit mechanism, just because they can. My unpopular opinion is that mega clouds are overrated. They’re fine, but they have a lot of weird gotchas that most people have just accepted as “how the cloud works.”
amadeuspagel 6y ago
Vercel is free.