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It's a lot of the same people that refuse free CDNs.

• nullc 24d ago
  Ever wonder why those CDNs are "free"?
  • andai 24d ago
    No, but I am now! Why?
    • DANmode 24d ago
      Control.
      • Towaway69 24d ago
        And i thought it was profit.
  • esseph 24d ago
    No, I don't actually. It's part of their lock-in and market capture like any other large digital business. The only ones that don't do it, can't.
• Gigachad 24d ago
  You don’t even need a cdn. The cheapest vps can handle HN load serving static pages. The problem tends to come when it’s some inefficient dynamic page triggering db calls to load a blog post.
  • esseph 24d ago
    > The cheapest vps can handle HN load serving static pages. Until it runs out of ram just from the tcp connections. 400-600 RPS should suffice given a default Debian install running Apache with a TLS cert, given 300MB of base OS and 1.7G of RAM on a 2GB vps. Being very generous here as many are 512MB... otherwise it takes far less.