Ask HN: Is your blog/website behind a CDN?

[rozenmd]

I recently released a quick tool [0] to visualise latency for websites from around the world (as tested from AWS Lambda), and was surprised to have folks let me know it convinced them to setup a CDN.

Do you have a CDN in front of your websites, HN?

[0]: https://onlineornot.com/do-i-need-a-cdn

[ad404b8a372f2b9]

Wish you would have posted the aggregated results so we could get an idea.

I suspect if most blogs want to improve their loading time they would have better results getting rid of the 20MB of trackers before breaking the web a little further with stuff like cloudflare.

[toastal → ad404b8a372f2b9]

The load time will be slower as I have to fill out another hCAPTCHA and go through more DDoS hoops.

[toastal]

CDN for my blog? Nope. That adds complexity and gives power to CDNs. Besides, CDNs and reverse proxies are blocked by SourceHut Pages anyhow (https://srht.site/limitations).

[mattbgates]

Using Cloudflare for my WP website which recieves over 2 million visitors a month from around the world. Went from crashihng all the time to hardly ever as Cloudflare became very efficient with its cache system.

[muzani]

I'm using Netlify (free tier). I assumed that it has a CDN and the tool confirms it, thanks!

[nickelcitymario]

I'm on Substack with a custom domain. It uses its own CDN hosted on S3 I believe.

[cpach]

I use AWS Amplify, it uses CloudFront under the hood.

[Lk7Of3vfJS2n]

I'd like to see dynamic code running on a CDN.

[syrusakbary → Lk7Of3vfJS2n]

Check out Wasmer Edge... you may find it interesting for deploying things on the Edge with dynamic routing!

https://wasmer.io/products/edge

[rozenmd → Lk7Of3vfJS2n]

Like Cloudflare Workers? https://workers.cloudflare.com/

[hitpointdrew → Lk7Of3vfJS2n]

Dynamic how? Like pages that load content from a database? Typically anything “dynamic” is on the backend, all your static shit (images, videos, sounds, fonts, etc.) are in the front end and on a CDN, which will make calls to your backend, which would be on a VM or in a k8s cluster, which in turn may make database calls.

[jgrahamc]

Yes.

[indus]

Yes.