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> But, we can get around that because of a partnership between Backblaze and Cloudflare they call the Bandwidth Alliance. This reads like a paid marketing post
by soheil 5y ago
> But, we can get around that because of a partnership between Backblaze and Cloudflare they call the Bandwidth Alliance.
This reads like a paid marketing post for Cloudflare.
It's astonishing how many times the author conflates browser cache-able assets with cached assets on a CDN. When a browser downloads a static asset if the web server is configured properly those files will be cached and there won't be a need to re-download them for a very long time.
There is of course the issue with modern web frameworks like React generating a single massive js/css file that bundles everything all over again in a unique file busting all previous cached versions across all users' browsers just because a comma was added to a sentence.
Keep your js/css files small, serve them from your own web server and set a reasonable expire header, no need to pay Cloudflare $40/mo to continue gatekeeping the internet.
- systemvoltage 5y agoI didn’t see it as an ad for Cloudflare unless I also then consider every single post about AWS in last 10 years on HN as ads. If anything, I’m fine with a new competitor to BigCloud that’s been unchecked and increasingly hostile (cost-wise).
- DenseComet 5y agoThey provide 3D asset downloads, most folks will only be downloading an asset a single time. Therefore, browser side caching doesn't really help, they need to cache the files on a CDN.