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Re:My £4 a month server can handle 4.2M requests a day by floren on Tuesday September 07, 2021 @05:05PM (#28449947)
Looks fine over here, and he doesn't have to route through a fucking Internet gatekeeper like Cloudflare or Amazon... let's enjoy this golden era before Chrome starts flagging any site which isn't fronted by a "reputable" cache like Cloudflare, Amazon, or whatever Google decides to introduce.
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Re:My £4 a month server can handle 4.2M requests a day by fbrchps on Tuesday September 07, 2021 @05:15PM (#28450051)
It would also be possible for OP to spin up their own Redis cache, and have multiple POPs near their target audience, and handle DoS type attacks against their site if need be, and easily be able to brush aside bot traffic, and...

Not all the above apply to a hobby-blog style site, but I wasn't referring only to OP's site in my original comment. I understand that not everyone needs to feed into "fucking Internet gatekeeper"s as you described, but the fact that they provide valuable services is undeniable. They make a complex operation -- one that could mean the difference between a company being able to sell their product or not -- simple.

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Re:My £4 a month server can handle 4.2M requests a day by antihero on Tuesday September 07, 2021 @05:19PM (#28450086)
Could just install Varnish locally.
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Re:My £4 a month server can handle 4.2M requests a day by fbrchps on Tuesday September 07, 2021 @05:31PM (#28450214)
Haven't used Varnish myself directly, but yeah that would also work.

For OP, I'd also be interested to see the benchmarks between this £4 server, and a £8 or £10 one, same stack.

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Re:My £4 a month server can handle 4.2M requests a day by mark_mcnally_je on Tuesday September 07, 2021 @05:22PM (#28450112)
Yeah a varnish install locally is the next step up from what I am doing I guess. Spinning up multiple POPs + cloudflare is way to much IMO
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Re:My £4 a month server can handle 4.2M requests a day by ezfe on Tuesday September 07, 2021 @05:27PM (#28450171)
Oh I hate Google as much as the next guy, but that's not something they've shown any interest in doing.
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Re:My £4 a month server can handle 4.2M requests a day by shtps on Tuesday September 07, 2021 @05:32PM (#28450226)
Google AMP comes to mind.
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Re:My £4 a month server can handle 4.2M requests a day by remram on Tuesday September 07, 2021 @07:38PM (#28451166)
Google Cloud CDN? https://cloud.google.com/cdn/
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Re:My £4 a month server can handle 4.2M requests a day by floren on Tuesday September 07, 2021 @08:09PM (#28451368)
I figured they had to have something but I wasn't aware of the exact product. Thanks.

Google Cloud CDN: Give us time, and we'll do to HTTP what we did to SMTP

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Re:My £4 a month server can handle 4.2M requests a day by chii on Tuesday September 07, 2021 @08:34PM (#28451547)
> we'll do to HTTP what we did to SMTP

they already did it - it's called chrome.

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