Show HN: I made a super-simple Image CDN

Re:Show HN: I made a super-simple Image CDN by bentocorp on Thursday October 03, 2024 @07:14PM (#41736061)

Would be good to have some rationale or understanding why someone would use this other than a broad based CDN such as CloudFlare or AWS?

Are image only CDN's a sustainable market? Maybe they are, and I'm just ignorant on why websites would choose such a thing over a general CDN.

Surely if someone has enough traffic or load to require a CDN then they would want it for their whole site and not just for image resources?

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Re:Show HN: I made a super-simple Image CDN by chillfox on Thursday October 03, 2024 @08:58PM (#41736743)

I think this is for blogs/sales pages using shared hosting maybe also people who likes sharing images on forums. Uploading an image and then copy pasting the link looks a lot easier than navigating CloudFlare or AWS. Basically, if you feel comfortable with big cloud user interfaces then you are not the target.

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Re:Show HN: I made a super-simple Image CDN by curben on Thursday October 03, 2024 @09:03PM (#41736771)

Image CDN primarily offers image resizing, especially useful for responsive images. It has a sizable market, both Cloudflare and AWS offer image processing service, see also major players like Cloudinary and Cloudimage.

Image and general CDNs are not exclusive: pictures resized on-the-fly and hosted on image CDN, while html/js/css hosted on general CDN.

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Re:Show HN: I made a super-simple Image CDN by youngtaff on Friday October 04, 2024 @05:24AM (#41739491)

Given Akamai, Cloudflare and Fastly all offer image processing this isn’t a market I’d get into

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