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You don't need a CDN for a personal blog

General Discussion by ana_mad 4 replies 366 views
ana_mad

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#1

Been running my static blog on a $3 HostHatch VPS for two years. Tried Cloudflare, tried GreenCloudVPS's built-in CDN, always end up tearing it out. Adds DNS complexity, cache purge headaches, and for what? My peak traffic is 200 visitors, mostly from same country. Latency improvement is maybe 30ms. Origin serves fine!

For personal projects under 1k daily hits, CDN feels like premature optimization. Am I missing something obvious? Cheers!

swimming upstream since 2019 🐟
walt22

Member

Austin

11 #2

I see where you're coming from (and I used to think exactly the same thing actually) but here's the thing about complexity and where we draw the line because everything in tech is complex if you look closely enough (like my first WordPress install in 2011 took me three days and now I can do it in ten minutes but that's not the point) the real issue with CDN isn't the setup it's the mental overhead of one more thing to break when you're half asleep at 2am and your site is down and you can't remember if it's DNS or the origin or the cache layer or what (speaking from experience here, three times, maybe four) and for my personal blog which gets maybe fifty visitors most of whom are bots if we're honest I just don't see the value proposition stacking up against the cognitive load budget which is finite and precious and we should spend it on things that actually matter like writing the posts

ana_mad

Member OP

#3

My clients expect premium experience regardless of scale. I put all my clients on Cloudflare Pro minimum, it's premium protection. If they have issues they open support ticket with me and I handle it. For personal blog? Still premium, brand matters. My clients sleep well.

swimming upstream since 2019 🐟
RA

Member

#4

Kiddo you got it all wrong. Cf isnt just about speed its about not getting owned by script kiddies. I run fivr blogs no CDN and got ddosed to oblivion. Shitf happens kiddo. Wake up!

BI

Member

#5

30ms is worth DNS complexity?

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