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Ask HN: Is your blog/website behind a CDN?
I recently released a quick tool [0] to visualise latency for websites from around the world (as tested from AWS Lambda), and was surprised to have folks let me know it convinced them to setup a CDN.
Do you have a CDN in front of your websites, HN?
[0]: https://onlineornot.com/do-i-need-a-cdn
- jgrahamc 3y agoYes.
- Lk7Of3vfJS2n 3y agoI'd like to see dynamic code running on a CDN.
- rozenmd 3y agoLike Cloudflare Workers? https://workers.cloudflare.com/ https://workers.cloudflare.com/
- syrusakbary 3y agoCheck out Wasmer Edge... you may find it interesting for deploying things on the Edge with dynamic routing! https://wasmer.io/products/edge https://wasmer.io/products/edge
- hitpointdrew 3y agoDynamic how? Like pages that load content from a database? Typically anything “dynamic” is on the backend, all your static shit (images, videos, sounds, fonts, etc.) are in the front end and on a CDN, which will make calls to your backend, which would be on a VM or in a k8s cluster, which in turn may make database calls.
- ad404b8a372f2b9 3y agoWish you would have posted the aggregated results so we could get an idea. I suspect if most blogs want to improve their loading time they would have better results getting rid of the 20MB of trackers before breaking the web a little further with stuff like cloudflare.
- toastal 3y agoThe load time will be slower as I have to fill out another hCAPTCHA and go through more DDoS hoops.
- cpach 3y agoI use AWS Amplify, it uses CloudFront under the hood.
- indus 3y agoYes.
- muzani 3y agoI'm using Netlify (free tier). I assumed that it has a CDN and the tool confirms it, thanks!
- nickelcitymario 3y agoI'm on Substack with a custom domain. It uses its own CDN hosted on S3 I believe.
- mattbgates 3y agoUsing Cloudflare for my WP website which recieves over 2 million visitors a month from around the world. Went from crashihng all the time to hardly ever as Cloudflare became very efficient with its cache system.
- toastal 3y agoCDN for my blog? Nope. That adds complexity and gives power to CDNs. Besides, CDNs and reverse proxies are blocked by SourceHut Pages anyhow (https://srht.site/limitations https://srht.site/limitations).