Ask HN: Clever ways to run a media-heavy website on a budget?

Re:Ask HN: Clever ways to run a media-heavy website on a bud... by phasecode on Saturday April 07, 2018 @11:26PM (#16784456)

Store your files in backblaze then proxy them through some cheap vps (to cover bandwidth) and add local cache through something like nginx so you're not going to the source frequently.

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Re:Ask HN: Clever ways to run a media-heavy website on a bud... by iMerNibor on Saturday April 07, 2018 @11:39PM (#16784482)

Some hints: ovh is good for eu/(northern) us (loadbalancing ip + vps behind it to spread load - be prepared to ditch vps if you're getting horrible performance), scaleway if you can live with just eu Probably as cheap as it gets from big providers

Obviously going to have to compromise (round robin dns > ~1gbps, self managed stuff), but thats just expected If it's just images probably just go with cloudflare

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Re:Ask HN: Clever ways to run a media-heavy website on a bud... by joshribakoff on Sunday April 08, 2018 @12:22AM (#16784604)

Can make byte range requests a bit complicated and slows down your site when there's cache misses

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Re:Ask HN: Clever ways to run a media-heavy website on a bud... by fleitz on Sunday April 08, 2018 @12:28AM (#16784624)

Use the slice command in nginx and $slice_range your cache key ;)

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Re:Ask HN: Clever ways to run a media-heavy website on a bud... by joshribakoff on Monday April 16, 2018 @08:31AM (#16848456)

I'm not asking for advice I'm stating it does technically complicate your setup. What if two people request overlapping ranges concurrently etc... it is more moving parts to setup, test and administer

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