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First of all, kudos, I’m a junkie for such optimizations myself. It’s a pleasure that your systems are optimized well, you sleep well and you’re proud :) Two t
by otar 5y ago
First of all, kudos, I’m a junkie for such optimizations myself. It’s a pleasure that your systems are optimized well, you sleep well and you’re proud :)
Two thoughts:
1) CloudFlare offers incredible service. What would need the team of netadmins/sysadmins can be handled via their UI easily. I use Argo in one project and yes, it is a very efficient tool. CloudFlare is becoming like AWS, knowing its tools is a skill. Maybe one day well see an official CloudFlare Solution Architect certification?.. :))
2) For such traffic heavy websites I don’t think there’s a better combination than Static Websites hosted over CDN, which is cached aggressively and for the dynamic part serverless as a backend. If you configure it properly (cache optimization, rate limiting to not get a huge paycheck if DDoSed, etc…) this setup is like set-up-and-forget-it, without the need to invest loads of resources into it.
- xyexs 5y agoI'm new to this stuff, but what the source article describes is essentially just that it is cheaper to run a static website with a CDN than without - right? I'm mostly curious because they described the cloudflare service as a cache layer rather than a CDN.
- collinmanderson 5y ago> They described the cloudflare service as a cache layer rather than a CDN. Not sure how most CDNs work, but for Cloudflare, content is not actively pushed to edge nodes, it’s only pulled to an edge when needed and then cached there usually for an hour or two. The caching is still distributed, and all of the tcp+https roundtrips are done to a local data center which makes things faster. > what the source article describes is essentially just that it is cheaper to run a static website with a CDN than without - right? Right. The cost savings comes from caching done by the CDN, and public static content is super easy to cache. The distributed part makes things faster, but doesn’t necessarily save money.