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HN itself is hosted on a single US-based server. Does this actually bother people outside the US?
by mwcampbell 4y ago
HN itself is hosted on a single US-based server. Does this actually bother people outside the US?
- Zababa 4y agoI'm in France and HN is almost always very responsive to me. I think one of the reasons why HN doesn't need to be "on the edge" as much as other applications is that servers roundtrips are relatively rare as it's more of a website, compared to web applications. To reply to you I clicked "reply", I'll click it again to post, but that's two interactions with the server in the time it takes me to write this post. If you're on an application that has to do rountrips to the server for each interactions, it could be useful to be on the edge, I think.
- spartanatreyu 4y agoNo, and here's why: HN's page makes so few requests I can count them on one hand. Compare that to a typical website and you'll see a different story. For example: The main website of my employer makes 86 requests which takes 7.13s to load. But with some clever resource deferring/ordering I've been able to get the DomContentLoaded event to fire (and appear loaded) in 2.81s. Unfortunately I won't be able to get that number any lower without some considerable months of investment on optimising that website, but that developer time is always prioritised elsewhere.