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It's mainly down to these points: * I've seen a lot of sites fall over when posted on HN or other link aggregators, like Reddit. * Cloud providers advertise g
by hddherman 5y ago
It's mainly down to these points:
* I've seen a lot of sites fall over when posted on HN or other link aggregators, like Reddit.
* Cloud providers advertise gigabit or bigger pipes for networking, 50 Mbps is not a lot in comparison.
* Images and other assets can take up a good chunk of this available bandwidth, which is why I keep an eye on the size of the end result as well.
* It's fun.
- wink 5y agoIt's a good article, please don't get me wrong here. I was just a little confused after doing the math. I'd imagine a very image-heavy post might be more of a bandwidth problem, but yeah, definition of "website" and all. My only nitpick (and sorry if I missed it, skimming) was the focus on total requests - which I find kinda useless, you need to look at resolution per minute, or per seconds for peaks.