some of my developer friends who have a tendency to over-architect things I have witnessed this as well. People do a thing however may not realize why they ar

some of my developer friends who have a tendency to over-architect things I have witnessed this as well. People do a thing however may not realize why they are doing it. It reminds me of the five monkeys, the ladder, the bananas and the sprayer. [1] I suppose that only you would know if your site really needs a CDN by looking at load/network statistics. Anecdotally the only times I have needed one was when I posted anything controversial. Even then a VPS can usually withstand some abuse but some of the admins can be quick to disable a node if they see sustained abuse. Some VPS providers are easier to manipulate into cancelling a VM without proper investigation. It also depends on how experienced the person responding to their abuse@ complaints is that day. For what it's worth, HN is not using a CDN and is just running on one server. [1] - https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/6828/was-the-experiment-with-five-monkeys-a-ladder-a-banana-and-a-water-spray-condu https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/6828/was-the-ex...