I Miss the Old Internet

Re:I Miss the Old Internet by superkuh on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @06:51PM (#21403816)

How many 100k image hits do you get on your personal website you made for fun? In the entire 20 years I've hosted my website on my comcast connection I have never had this issue. If you're going to post an image to reddit (which is kind of going backwards from the point of all this) then just mirror it onto some popular image host (or your VPS). This doesn't prevent you from also serving up a copy from your local disk to visitors.

1 megabit of upstream is plenty for a personal website. I can say this from long experience.

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Re:I Miss the Old Internet by gfody on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @07:19PM (#21404080)

when comes time for your personal websites 15 minutes of fame it becomes inaccessible due to severe upstream bottlenecking

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Re:I Miss the Old Internet by akiselev on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @07:25PM (#21404124)

If that 15 minutes of fame is so important, put up a load balancer with autoscaling or make sure the Wayback machine archives every post upon publication.

Not every site needs to have 3+ nines of uptime.

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Re:I Miss the Old Internet by Sohcahtoa82 on Thursday October 31, 2019 @02:28PM (#21412029)

While yes, that would work, we were talking about hosting things yourself at home.

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Re:I Miss the Old Internet by Sohcahtoa82 on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @08:31PM (#21404550)

Obviously, if I'm going to share the image, I won't link it directly and would use an image hosting service, or just upload it directly to reddit for them to host.

That does nothing if some other rando decides to link to it.

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