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How much difference does a CDN make to a fediverse instance? - PieFed (join.piefed.social)

submitted 8 months ago by ericjmorey to c/fediverse

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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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[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I bet for most instances setting up a Varnish cache is just as effective but much cheaper.

[–] palitu@aussie.zone 0 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Intere a ting, never heard of it. Unfortunately I have nothing to play with it on :(

Edit: maybe immich. But probably not really needed unless I share an album with a lot of people.