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Re:Scaling Your Static Site to a Global Market for a Fractio... by giobox on Wednesday August 15, 2018 @05:10PM (#17769814)
> What if your site changes every 5 minutes, and is about 100Mb?

This is probably an exceptional rate of change for the _vast_ majority of static sites.

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Re:Scaling Your Static Site to a Global Market for a Fractio... by bigpicture on Wednesday August 15, 2018 @05:17PM (#17769864)
> This is probably an exceptional rate of change for the _vast_ majority of static sites.

I also doubt that many static sites have much "overhead" related to maintaining nginx config files and Let's Encrypt certificates.

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Re:Scaling Your Static Site to a Global Market for a Fractio... by outworlder on Wednesday August 15, 2018 @06:31PM (#17770315)
Sure, but then there's the whole overhead of maintaining a server.
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Re:Scaling Your Static Site to a Global Market for a Fractio... by ramses0 on Thursday August 16, 2018 @06:13PM (#17778843)
Clarify this: "The difference between zero servers and one server is much larger than the difference between 100 servers and 101 servers"

The person you're talking to is likely thinking of the "100=>101" case, not the "0=>1" case.

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Re:Scaling Your Static Site to a Global Market for a Fractio... by 1996 on Thursday August 16, 2018 @01:02AM (#17772031)
Maintaining a server is not complicated nowadays, with ansible. I have a few dozens, some of them don't need any admin for years (like linode), the others have debian testing and ansible to deploy matching configurations and keep up with the updates
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