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How do 5M page views consume 80TB of traffic? That sounded like a lot, but calculates out to 1,600KB per page view. That's a lot of JS and images on every pag
by jaytaylor 5y ago
How do 5M page views consume 80TB of traffic? That sounded like a lot, but calculates out to 1,600KB per page view. That's a lot of JS and images on every page :)
A few years ago when I hosted what felt to me like a popular site, I was serving serving > 150K page views a month from a 1.5Mbps adsl uplink. With that said, back then you could gzip everything and there was no letsencrypt or CloudFlare walls across the board (didn't exist yet).
Good thing bandwidth is easier to come by these days.
- smadge 5y agoThe website is for downloading 3D graphics assets, which are typically fairly large files.
- jaytaylor 5y agoI see.. was thrown off by: > Running a massively popular website and asset resource while being funded primarily by donations has always been a core challenge of Poly Haven. My brain went: poly.. fill.io or something Thank you, sorry, am embarrassed.
- schleck8 5y ago> asset resource HDRIs, high res textures & 3D models
- ghostly_s 5y agoDid you even look at the article? They operate a digital asset store.
- jrockway 5y agoI don't think they're a store, everything is free and Patreon supporters get early access. I do occasional 3D rendering and the HDRIs are great. The downloads are fast enough to make you ask "whoa, how is this free".
- itsdrewmiller 5y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html 'Please don't comment on whether someone read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that."'
- bhelkey 5y agoThe site describes itself as, 'The Public 3D Asset Library'. I suspect that a good portion of this is downloading assets.
- dragonwriter 5y ago> How do 5M page views consume 80TB of traffic? That sounded like a lot, but calculates out to 1,600KB per page view. No, that's low by an order of magnitude. It is 16MB (16,000KB) per page view.