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Re:Rolling your own CDN for $25 in 1 hour by pushrax on Sunday July 27, 2014 @08:39PM (#8094518)
Managing the infrastructure is definitely where it falls short, but if you can get it done quickly it can be very cost-efficient for smaller projects. Three $5 DO boxes can easily handle > 1TB per month, which will cost over $100 on most CDNs.
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Re:Rolling your own CDN for $25 in 1 hour by gaadd33 on Sunday July 27, 2014 @08:53PM (#8094555)
Couldn't you just use cloudflare's free tier?
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Re:Rolling your own CDN for $25 in 1 hour by pushrax on Sunday July 27, 2014 @09:04PM (#8094591)
CloudFlare's hit rate is predictably terrible for large binary files. We actually use DigitalOcean + Varnish + S3 for serving downloads from mods.io, since the files are relatively big and the site has such a low margin. Traditional CDNs (we were using Fastly) are not scalable cost-wise for that particular site.
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