Re:Man who built ISP instead of paying Comcast $50K expands ...
by snypher on Wednesday April 16, 2025 @08:45PM
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This page was 9 seconds of white screen before the entire thing loaded at once. I'm on Starlink. Hopefully you get a chance to correct this in the future, as I'm really supportive of projects like yours, but if the page was linked from a top-5 article or something I would have hit the back button already.
Re:Man who built ISP instead of paying Comcast $50K expands ...
by Nick-W on Wednesday April 16, 2025 @11:25PM
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Totally - we're not advertising yet and usually only dealing with very local traffic at the moment, didn't expect to get tens of thousands of hits from linking to it from a hackernews comment!
The backend is an azure appservice running on a single low-spec worker at the moment, wasn't planning on enabling scaling before doing a hard-launch but here we are.
Re:Man who built ISP instead of paying Comcast $50K expands ...
by snypher on Thursday April 17, 2025 @10:19PM
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I am sorry, I always forget about the 'HN effect'!
Re:Man who built ISP instead of paying Comcast $50K expands ...
by paulirish on Wednesday April 16, 2025 @09:08PM
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First Contentful Paint at 12.0 seconds here, and I'm on fiber.
Re:Man who built ISP instead of paying Comcast $50K expands ...
by winrid on Wednesday April 16, 2025 @11:25PM
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On my phone on Comcast cable it was like 3 seconds for me.
Re:Man who built ISP instead of paying Comcast $50K expands ...
by Coneylake on Thursday April 17, 2025 @03:10AM
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Also was a few seconds of white screen for me. And I'm on fiber
Re:Man who built ISP instead of paying Comcast $50K expands ...
by ctvo on Thursday April 17, 2025 @07:56AM
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It's a great marketing strategy. People without broadband access will truly feel it when they visit.
Re:Man who built ISP instead of paying Comcast $50K expands ...
by buckle8017 on Wednesday April 16, 2025 @09:31PM
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Yes the white page with nothing else mad me think it was broken.
Re:Man who built ISP instead of paying Comcast $50K expands ...
by Nick-W on Wednesday April 16, 2025 @11:27PM
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It's currently running on a single azure appworker, you might've hit it during a service autoheal/reset. There's a fair bit of overhead for every connection since it's designed for our subscribers to use and get realtime stats on their connection, was not expecting to get tens of thousands of hits by linking to it in a hacker news comment.
That said, I know our page isn't particularly lightweight anyway, I've been pretty focused on expansion efforts and haven't had much time to update & work on the site.