[rgrove]

Hi! I'm the guy behind RawGit.

I've actually never accepted donations. I paid the meager cost of the $10/month DigitalOcean droplet for the origin server, and StackPath (formerly MaxCDN) sponsored the CDN, which handled the majority of RawGit's traffic.

Once, I worked out how much the CDN bill would have been if StackPath hadn't sponsored me and my head nearly exploded. So yeah, I definitely couldn't have done it without them!

[wumms]

How much would the bill have been? Rough estimate: 176TB per month: $3.500 to $4.200.

[rgrove]

It was a while ago now so my memory is hazy, but that sounds about right.

[jdorfman]

It was a pleasure working with you on this Ryan. You did an amazing job.

[rgrove]

Thanks Justin! Likewise.

[tim333]

Did you consider trying to sell the thing to GitHub or GitLab? That many users must be worth something I'd imagine.

[tardyp]

Maxcdn must be very happy with all the data they gather with your project... I stopped using all those cdn based js deliver service when I saw all the cookies they were adding to my user's browsers.

[rgrove]

StackPath doesn't add any cookies to cdn.rawgit.com responses. Here are the complete headers from a sample response:

  HTTP/1.1 200 OK
  Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2018 17:56:30 GMT
  Content-Type: application/json;charset=utf-8
  Transfer-Encoding: chunked
  Connection: close
  X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
  X-Robots-Tag: none
  Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *
  ETag: "9c153866d0cad7024c0f31eb7b65be11582a6737"
  Cache-Control: max-age=86400
  Vary: Accept-Encoding
  RawGit-Cache-Status: HIT
  Server: NetDNA-cache/2.2
  Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=31536000; preload
  X-Cache: HIT

[snthd]

Possibly - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_ETag#Tracking_using_ETags

[Maxious]

The ETags are identical to those from Github:

$ curl -I https://cdn.rawgit.com/sindresorhus/awesome/master/readme.md

etag: "1218d241f6c717fa83d0f1afa64809d6ce7451c8"

$ curl -I https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sindresorhus/awesome/maste...

ETag: "1218d241f6c717fa83d0f1afa64809d6ce7451c8"