Re:We handle 80TB and 5M page views a month for under $400
by tshaddox on Wednesday January 05, 2022 @09:19PM
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Is there a decentralized solution you would recommend that’s better?
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Re:We handle 80TB and 5M page views a month for under $400
by bawolff on Wednesday January 05, 2022 @11:24PM
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I appreciate you are replying to someone, but i feel like this doesn't quite make sense. You're running a website. Why would your web server be decentralized? HTTP is a client/server protocol after all.
Re:We handle 80TB and 5M page views a month for under $400
by brainwipe on Thursday January 06, 2022 @04:24AM
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Because caching is part of the HTTP spec. If content doesn't change on every request, you cache it with a timeout. If users are looking at your site from around the world, you want the cache to exist as close to them as possible. This is the job of the CDN. In Cloudflare's case, they sit between your web server and the user and can be that HTTP cache. If your site is popular, you might still have multiple versions of it across regions.