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0 pointslazyjones10y ago0 comments

> I'm wondering who on earth is the market for this?

People whose web pages generate a lot of traffic (10TB allowed) with low CPU usage, i.e. static pages and similar.

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>People whose web pages generate a lot of traffic (10TB allowed) with low CPU usage, i.e. static pages and similar.

Surely such cases are better served by offloading to a CDN. As much as I hate centralizing to one company, CloudFlare nails this pretty damn well.

jaysh10y ago

Wouldn't those users be better served by a $5 VPS? They're cheaper per-month, have no setup fee, and probably even get provisioned quicker.

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0 pointslazyjones10y ago0 comments

> I'm wondering who on earth is the market for this?

People whose web pages generate a lot of traffic (10TB allowed) with low CPU usage, i.e. static pages and similar.

>People whose web pages generate a lot of traffic (10TB allowed) with low CPU usage, i.e. static pages and similar.

Surely such cases are better served by offloading to a CDN. As much as I hate centralizing to one company, CloudFlare nails this pretty damn well.

jaysh10y ago

Wouldn't those users be better served by a $5 VPS? They're cheaper per-month, have no setup fee, and probably even get provisioned quicker.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse