[vog]

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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16060256

[shams93]

Yeah although ipfs looks cool until we have a p2p based web you really need a cdn service for static sites that take a lot of hits. I wonder if Amazon is worried about ipfs because if that gets big there won't be a need for the S3 service.

[vog]

> you really need a cdn service for static sites that take a lot of hits

No, you don't. HN traffic isn't that large. Even a Raspberry Pie should be sufficient (with good internet connection, though). See the above link.

You'll need a CDN for videos and maybe huge hi-res images, though.

[BrandoElFollito]

I cannot digvup right now an article I read on HN about the load spike following HN visibility of a site. I was planning to get back to it someday to understand how a static site like mine (with several HTML files and just one webpack-generated JS) would behave.