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Re:We use our own hardware at Fastmail by stefan_ on Sunday December 22, 2024 @01:25PM (#42488098)
Is everyone running online FPS gaming servers now? If you want your page to load faster, tell your shitty frontend engineers to use less of the latest frameworks. You are not limited by physics, 99% aren't.

I ping HN, it's 150ms away, it still renders in the same time that the Google frontpage does and that one has a 130ms advantage.

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Re:We use our own hardware at Fastmail by pixelesque on Sunday December 22, 2024 @01:52PM (#42488266)
Erm, 99%'s clearly wrong and I think you know it, even if you are falling into the typical trap of "only Americans matter"...

As someone in New Zealand, latency does really matter sometimes, and is painfully obvious at times.

HN's ping for me is around: 330 ms.

Anyway, ping doesn't really describe the latency of the full DNS lookup propogation, TCP connection establishment and TLS handshake: full responses for HN are around 900 ms for me till last byte.

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Re:We use our own hardware at Fastmail by justsomehnguy on Sunday December 22, 2024 @02:10PM (#42488362)
> latency does really matter sometimes

Yes, sometimes.

You know what matters way more?

If you throw 12MBytes to the client in a multiple connections on multiple domains to display 1KByte of information. Eg: 'new' Reddit.

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