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Sure, but CDNs for static content feel to me like effectively a solved problem in 2025. There are plenty of good providers and some of them are practically fre

by simonw 1y ago

Sure, but CDNs for static content feel to me like effectively a solved problem in 2025. There are plenty of good providers and some of them are practically free. I mean sure, if you want to roll your own CDN by hosting boxes in colos across multiple continents and applying geographical load balancing via DNS you're taking on a whole lot of extra complexity, but I think outsourcing that to Cloudflare or Fastly or Fly.io or whomever is a reasonable strategy that still counts as "self-hosting", at least in comparison to using YouTube.

chrismorgan 1y ago
I want self-hosting to mean only hosting (as in, speaking HTTP) from servers that I control. I acknowledge this is not exclusively how the term is used any more, but I do think it’s still at least a preferable goal. I want to self-host things. Currently I use a VPS. I’m planning on trying out hosting from home. Either way, if I get into doing much multi-megabit-per-second video stuff, hosting of that bit will definitely be going behind some CDN.