[josephg]

> Sidenote: unless you think you can get really, REALLY popular, you won't hit a CDN-deserving load.

I don’t agree. A few months ago my blog post on CRDTs got 100k views within a week after landing on the top of HN. It’s just hosted on ghost with some poorly written custom theme that loads a ton of CSS for some reason. The VPS I host it from wouldn’t have dealt with the traffic - it served over 50 gigs within a week; and that’s over my VPS’s monthly cap iirc.

I have the whole site behind Cloudflare’s free plan and it handled the load flawlessly. And cloudflare also makes the webpage load faster for everyone. It seems like a no brainer to me.

[NorwegianDude]

100k hits over a week isn't much all things considered.

A static blog post that requires ~0,5 MB of transfer can be easily served from low powered server in an hour. That's only slightly above 100 Mbps and 27 rps. Servers are fast, much much faster than that.

Of course, poorly written code might make any solution too slow.

[SkyLinx]

Agree, that's not much. Since I submitted this I saw up to 2K concurrent users at some point when I was 1st. Would be nice to have this sort of traffic for a week! :p

[josephg]

Yeah it’s not much, but I’d rather have cloudflare think about that than me. Especially if the only cost is 15 minutes of DNS configuration, it seems very cheap for the peace of mind.