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There's Akamai, Fastly, Cloudflare, AWS and Googles CDNs and what else? To be able to serve an everything app to enough people for it to be relevant, the web pl
by eptcyka 4y ago
There's Akamai, Fastly, Cloudflare, AWS and Googles CDNs and what else? To be able to serve an everything app to enough people for it to be relevant, the web platform, whilst clearly having a lot more choice than mobile or PC platforms, is not necessarily the panacea of liberty.
- bombcar 4y agoYou can serve the thousands or tens of thousands of users without any of those (it's harder, and more expensive, but it's not impossible). And once you're bigger than that, you start having other options available to you if you must avoid those. Especially if you stay away from video, it's not insanely hard. HN itself is two servers, IIRC.
- eptcyka 4y agoHN is not an everything app. If you want to serve images and preserve UX across a country like the states, you'll want a CDN.