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Re:Man who built ISP instead of paying Comcast $50K expands ... by snypher on Wednesday April 16, 2025 @08:45PM (#43711897)
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.
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Re:Man who built ISP instead of paying Comcast $50K expands ... by Nick-W on Wednesday April 16, 2025 @11:25PM (#43712811)
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.

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Re:Man who built ISP instead of paying Comcast $50K expands ... by snypher on Thursday April 17, 2025 @10:19PM (#43724317)
I am sorry, I always forget about the 'HN effect'!
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Re:Man who built ISP instead of paying Comcast $50K expands ... by paulirish on Wednesday April 16, 2025 @09:08PM (#43712042)
First Contentful Paint at 12.0 seconds here, and I'm on fiber.
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Re:Man who built ISP instead of paying Comcast $50K expands ... by winrid on Wednesday April 16, 2025 @11:25PM (#43712800)
On my phone on Comcast cable it was like 3 seconds for me.
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Re:Man who built ISP instead of paying Comcast $50K expands ... by Coneylake on Thursday April 17, 2025 @03:10AM (#43713930)
Also was a few seconds of white screen for me. And I'm on fiber
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Re:Man who built ISP instead of paying Comcast $50K expands ... by ctvo on Thursday April 17, 2025 @07:56AM (#43715489)
It's a great marketing strategy. People without broadband access will truly feel it when they visit.
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