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Your server is irrelevant. If it's being visited by humans, it just needs to get your information to them in a speedy-enough fashion. It's the content you're se
by TheRealPomax 2y ago
Your server is irrelevant. If it's being visited by humans, it just needs to get your information to them in a speedy-enough fashion. It's the content you're serving that matters, not what's serving it. (5MB React bundles? You're bad at the web and you should feel bad. Pure HTML and CSS using brotli compression? You're a superhero)
- immibis 2y agoThe server technology is relevant because it controls how the information gets to humans. A site without 5MB of Javascript runs faster than one with 5MB of Javascript, all else equal. And Hacker News is a site for technically-minded people who are here to read about things like servers, so even if it was not relevant, it would still be appropriate for Hacker News.
- TheRealPomax 2y agoTo a degree, but unless you need to serve a literal thousand-plus humans per second (AI bots don't count, modern problems require modern solutions and "your own" is not a solution, use an AI maze SaaS), it's still irrelevant: every modern CPU and even inefficient scripting language can serve hundreds of concurrent connections as long as the content itself is proper content instead of "modern" nonsense bundles. Sending pre-compressed html and css (with a sprinkling of JS at best to enhance the experience after it's already in the browser) is kilobytes of work at most (irrespective of how much it unpacks to on the client). The biggest lie the modern web sold us is that information needs to be packed up in complex datatypes and be interpreted on the client before it's information again.