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A comment on Ask HN: Clever ways to run a media-heavy website on a budget?. Parent comment

Re:Ask HN: Clever ways to run a media-heavy website on a bud... by lubos on Saturday April 07, 2018 @09:59PM (#16784161)
That's probably the most expensive route you can go once you have any decent traffic.
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Re:Ask HN: Clever ways to run a media-heavy website on a bud... by th0ma5 on Sunday April 08, 2018 @12:05AM (#16784548)
What about text content only? This is free SSL with Let's Encrypt but Cloudfare seemingly charges for SSL.

Edit: Seemingly it could be free, but you must manually handle your certs to some degree.

Edit 2: Cloudfront now comes with "AWS Shield Standard" automatically to protect from DDOS?

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