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What are thoughts on putting an instance behind a CDN?

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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just have a cache invalidation strategy.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yea, ideally all these things should have pretty aggressive caching around them, I suppose a CDN could help lower their resource costs even more... but I think the vast majority of work will be retrieving dynamic data like posts and comments.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah. Serving static assets is not a big deal with a decent web server. You can get servers with unmetered transfer and the CPU and memory for static resources is tiny. Main reason to use a CDN is latency.

IF the static assets like images and video are being served by the application from other network sources or out of a database then a caching CDN would be a big win for sure.