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Most content-heavy media sites make use of CDNs, and the expenses involved are generally reasonable. It's unlikely that a slightly heavier image would have a si
by ed_mercer 3y ago
Most content-heavy media sites make use of CDNs, and the expenses involved are generally reasonable. It's unlikely that a slightly heavier image would have a significant impact on their costs.
I think this might be more of a well-intentioned effort to help end-users save on bandwidth, but it could lead to a bad experience as OP pointed out in their blog post.
- iopq 3y agoCDN storage costs are actually very high, only large websites that basically run their own CDNs storage many different versions of the image to optimize for bandwidth. The company I worked for did, but they didn't pay for a CDN, just loaded everything from one server
- lxgr 3y agoUnlike self-hosting, CDNs (and many cloud computing services) are typically paid by the byte of outbound traffic, so sending 30% less per image often results in a direct 30% savings!