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.

Read How much difference does a CDN make to a fediverse instance?

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[–] rezz@lemmy.world 34 points 8 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] Fudoshin@feddit.uk 14 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com 6 points 8 months ago

This should be paragraph one