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Why, if his monthly bill is 83 cents, and he values his time? Does not using a CDN impact performance in a crippling way that neither me nor the poster you're r

Why, if his monthly bill is 83 cents, and he values his time? Does not using a CDN impact performance in a crippling way that neither me nor the poster you're replying to understands?

philistine 6y ago
The big gain with putting Cloudfront in front of it is you can have HTTPS.
- dave_sid 6y ago
  And loose 30 mins of your life you’ll never get back. It’s just a person site.
  - foobar33333 6y ago
    Browsers will light up like a christmas tree if your site doesn't have https.
- crazypython 6y ago
  HTTPS gets you better SEO and the ability to be iframe'd from HTTPS sites.
  - speedgoose 6y ago
    And some security.
nrmitchi 6y ago
Performance maybe a little bit, but IIRC you, as the owner of the bucket, pay for bandwidth out. Putting it being a CDN protects you (at least a little bit) from the possibility of a huge bandwidth bill at the end of the month if someone realizes they can attack your wallet directly by trying to ddos your site.
- crazypython 6y ago
  I agree– AWS bandwidth out is literally 100 times more expensive than CDN and VPN bandwidth out.
  - sitzkrieg 6y ago
    indeed, not to mention generous bandwidth rates on vps providers too
  - crazypython 6y ago
    *VPS
crazypython 6y ago
> Does not using a CDN impact performance in a crippling way that neither me nor the poster you're replying to understands? It adds up to 600ms of latency for each roundtrip. A modern website without link rel=preload is several roundtrips– download HTML page, then do JS requests and CSS, so that's ~1.2s of additional latency. Because he succumbed to AWS' marketing. Surge, mentioned downthread, lets you deploy a folder for free on a worldwide CDN with virtually no setup.
pgroves 6y ago
I don't think it matters much b/c of the super low volume but I do have it behind Cloudflare free-tier.
imgabe 6y ago
It takes like 30 seconds to point a Cloudfront distribution at an S3 bucket. Maybe a couple minutes more to set up the domain.
- maest 6y ago
  Eh, only if you've done it before. If it's your first time, it can easily take 30 mins to an hour, if you also have to figure out how to host the website on Route 53.
  - imgabe 6y ago
    Well, sure, but every suggestion is going to take some time if you've never done it before. It's not like it's an obscure skill that you'll never use, it's pretty handy to know.

Why, if his monthly bill is 83 cents, and he values his time? Does not using a CDN impact performance in a crippling way that neither me nor the poster you're replying to understands?

philistine 6y ago

The big gain with putting Cloudfront in front of it is you can have HTTPS.

dave_sid 6y ago
And loose 30 mins of your life you’ll never get back. It’s just a person site.
- foobar33333 6y ago
  Browsers will light up like a christmas tree if your site doesn't have https.
crazypython 6y ago
HTTPS gets you better SEO and the ability to be iframe'd from HTTPS sites.
- speedgoose 6y ago
  And some security.

nrmitchi 6y ago

Performance maybe a little bit, but IIRC you, as the owner of the bucket, pay for bandwidth out. Putting it being a CDN protects you (at least a little bit) from the possibility of a huge bandwidth bill at the end of the month if someone realizes they can attack your wallet directly by trying to ddos your site.

crazypython 6y ago
I agree– AWS bandwidth out is literally 100 times more expensive than CDN and VPN bandwidth out.
- sitzkrieg 6y ago
  indeed, not to mention generous bandwidth rates on vps providers too
- crazypython 6y ago
  *VPS

crazypython 6y ago

> Does not using a CDN impact performance in a crippling way that neither me nor the poster you're replying to understands? It adds up to 600ms of latency for each roundtrip. A modern website without link rel=preload is several roundtrips– download HTML page, then do JS requests and CSS, so that's ~1.2s of additional latency. Because he succumbed to AWS' marketing. Surge, mentioned downthread, lets you deploy a folder for free on a worldwide CDN with virtually no setup.

pgroves 6y ago

I don't think it matters much b/c of the super low volume but I do have it behind Cloudflare free-tier.

imgabe 6y ago

It takes like 30 seconds to point a Cloudfront distribution at an S3 bucket. Maybe a couple minutes more to set up the domain.

maest 6y ago
Eh, only if you've done it before. If it's your first time, it can easily take 30 mins to an hour, if you also have to figure out how to host the website on Route 53.
- imgabe 6y ago
  Well, sure, but every suggestion is going to take some time if you've never done it before. It's not like it's an obscure skill that you'll never use, it's pretty handy to know.