What are thoughts on putting an instance behind a CDN?

  • @xmunk
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    29 months ago

    What types of read calls would you put behind a CDN in lemmy?

        • @xmunk
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          19 months ago

          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.

          • @[email protected]
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            19 months 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.