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$20 a month for a Static site? that feels like a first world problem. I feel like everything is over engineered, unless you need subsecond delivery of your asse
by anaganisk 5y ago
$20 a month for a Static site? that feels like a first world problem. I feel like everything is over engineered, unless you need subsecond delivery of your assets which are very huge, cdn doesn’t even makes sense. For a blog whats the point, your site is not going to receive heavy traffic every hour from global locations everyday. If you are concerned about returning users cache your assets on their machine. If your site is video heavy I can understand. I run a Django site for a zoo on a $10 instance, I have 2 others running on same instance. Never had issue with page speed even on 2G or under load my instance didn’t suffer. My storage on s3 is proxied via Nginx and cached on user device and in Nginx, I never even had a downtime due to traffic. I use fail2ban for basic protection. If it comes to DDOS im behind cloudflare free tier. $20 per month for a blog? Lol.
- throw14082020 5y agoYou missed the point, it's "pay $20 real quick to Cloudflare if you happen to get popular". There is a generous free tier, and for years I have paid nothing to Cloudflare, but I serve 2GB total every month to visitors, YMMV.
- anaganisk 5y agoNo I didn’t miss the point, $20 is weeks worth of meal in majority of countries. People from those countries run successful blogs without paying a penny to cloudlfare. I serve much more than 2GB per month without all that on a dynamic site. Paying cloudlfare for that is like putting a tarp over a dumpster fire to quickly hide it. I would rather think why my static site fails like shit when it doesn’t even need server side processing and correct it. I’m not saying cloudflare/CDN is useless, it shines when you are serving huge assets every hour to lot of people globally, or want to secure from bot traffic, or other useful features it provides. Heck you could even host a static site on s3 or netlify for free and answer all the traffic in the world. Remember Google returned subsecond results much before cloudflare or global CDNs were in place.
- innocenat 5y agoThen let your site fail, it's your choice. For the rest of us who would rather not let our site fail, a quick one time $20 tarp over dumpster to handle the traffic in the meantime is good.
- anaganisk 5y agoMy site never failed thats the thing without paying $20. And many developers can actually do it too. If you can’t serve decent traffic for a static site, I would rather fix the leaking tap once and for all than wasting money on a water tanker every time I am out of water.
- innocenat 5y agoAnd I am not saying you have to pay $20 every time. It's there to handle the traffic while you identify and fix the problem. It's your choice if you don't want redundancy in place if any incidents happened.
- collinmanderson 5y agoWhat does the $20 buy vs free plan? During a spike I was able to handle 30k pageviews per hour with Cloudflare free plan + $40 vps. Pretty much all pageviews were cached by Cloudflare and didn't hit my server. How does the $20 plan help?
- elaveriao 5y agoI invite you to do the calculations of serving 80tb of data serving from S3. Over 6k was my result but happy to be proved wrong.
- anaganisk 5y agoWhat are you serving on a static site/ blog worth 80TB? I also said CDN makes sense for huge files. Please don’t nitpick.