How much difference does a CDN make to a fediverse instance? - PieFed

2 years ago by ericjmorey to c/fediverse

For a very small instance with only a couple of concurrent users a CDN might not make much difference. But if you take a look at your web server logs you’ll quickly notice that every post / like / vote triggers a storm of requests from other instances to yours, looking up lots of different […]

cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/5391072

February 20, 2024 piefedadmin writes:

For a very small instance with only a couple of concurrent users a CDN might not make much difference. But if you take a look at your web server logs you’ll quickly notice that every post / like / vote triggers a storm of requests from other instances to yours, looking up lots of different things. It’s easy to imagine how quickly this would overwhelm an instance once it gets even a little busy.

One of the first web performance tools people reach for is to use a CDN, like Cloudflare. But how much difference will it make? In this video I show you my web server logs before and after and compare them.

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rezz 39 points 2 years ago

We need an encyclopedia of posts/content like this that is the masterbook of Fediverse ops and scaling "how-to."

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Fudoshin 14 points 2 years ago

Go on then sailor. Be the change you want to see!

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haui_lemmy 6 points 2 years ago

This should be paragraph one

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