This is why I tell my WordPress clients to just use a real CDN. Bunny.net is $1/TB. Stop looking for it bundled with hosting that costs less than coffee.
Looking for CDN included in cheap VPS hosting
marcus_qc
Member
pam_blik said:
Bunny.net is $1/TB
My clients want one login and one invoice. They will not manage two services. I am stuck with these bundles.
42U and still growing
srelet
Member
I've been running synthetic tests from Bangalore and Mumbai against HostHatch's Singapore and Stockholm nodes. Cache hit ratio is solid but TTFB from India to Singapore is 180ms average. That's not CDN performance, that's just a VPS in a nearby city.
srelet said:
TTFB from India to Singapore is 180ms average
Can confirm. I am in Bangalore and tested HostHatch last year. The "CDN" is just their VPS locations with nginx cache. No edge optimization, no TCP tuning.
What about free tier? Oracle Cloud has always-free tier with 10TB outbound. No CDN but you can run nginx with proxy_cache and put it in multiple regions yourself. I do this with 6 instances.
licensing is a suggestion
Following. Need exactly this for a JAMstack site.
olya said:
Oracle Cloud has always-free tier
Oracle free tier is not for production. They terminate instances without warning for "idle" definitions that change monthly. I lost a database this way. Never again.
jackdeal1993 said:
They terminate instances without warning
Same happened to me in São Paulo region. "Always free" until it is not. Back to paid hosting.
irarose
Member OP
Update: I have now tested HostHatch $12 plan. The throttle is indeed removed but cache headers are not honored properly. Max-age=86400 gets rewritten to max-age=3600. Their support says "this is expected behavior for dynamic content protection." My content is static HTML.
irarose said:
Max-age=86400 gets rewritten to max-age=3600
This is why I run my own. 99.999% means controlling every layer. I do not trust middlemen with headers.