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Why are you serving 400kb of JavaScript? Why are you paying $0.15/GB? These numbers are certainly not on the low end.

• quickthrower2 6y ago
  I assume that it's "for the sake of argument" https://www.ldoceonline.com/dictionary/for-the-sake-of-argument https://www.ldoceonline.com/dictionary/for-the-sake-of-argum... Also it's a bit like a proof. By assuming worse numbers, and arriving at $60, your better numbers will only prove the point even more.
  • heartbeats 6y ago
    By arriving worse numbers, you arrive at a higher price, so it makes your point weaker if anything. If a site bundles half a meg of JS, it's going to be unpleasant to use, and if you're serving so much JS it's hurting you financially, it's probably time to reconsider what you're doing.
    • quickthrower2 6y ago
      No it makes the point stronger, the point being "it's cheap enough to host your own CDN that you don't need to use a free one". And further "it is so so cheap that you can still make these dumb mistakes and it's still worth hosting the files yourself!" It's like saying should I use a dry cleaner? Well it's only $50 to get them to iron my shirts, so it's worth it for my time saved. Then someone says "$50! You are being ripped off, if your "doing it right", you'd get it done for $10", to which I say, well if it's worth me paying $50, then it is worth me paying $10, so my original argument "use a dry cleaner" is made stronger.