[js2]

I've been doing this long enough that I remember when all the big web sites were hosted in California. In fact, my company had its web farm in Sunnyvale which we managed over frame relay from Atlanta.

Whenever I'd visit the west coast, I was shocked how much faster the web seemed.

So I sympathize with the sentiment.

Thing is though, the entire web feels pretty sluggish to me these days. And that's with us-east-1 less than 300 miles away from me. Because most web sites aren't slow due to where they're hosted, but rather because of how bloated with crap most of them have become.

[lordnacho]

> Thing is though, the entire web feels pretty sluggish to me these days. And that's with us-east-1 less than 300 miles away from me. Because most web sites aren't slow due to where they're hosted, but rather because of how bloated with crap most of them have become.

It doesn't seem much faster than it seemed in 1995 when I first got online. There's much more stuff, but the latency doesn't really seem much better.

It's probably commercial: people don't mind wasting 3-4 seconds at a time loading Reddit/FB/etc and in that time a whole bunch of code that's useful to the website operator is loaded. All the stuff that tracks what you're up to.

[sgt]

I've even seen sites that don't load properly or aren't usable before the cookie banner renders, which may be loaded inefficiently from somewhere else. It's tragic!

[StanislavPetrov]

>Sunnyvale

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