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What are thoughts on putting an instance behind a CDN?

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[โ€“] muddybulldog@mylemmy.win 8 points 2 years ago

It works. End of thoughts.

[โ€“] Shadow@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

https://lemmy.ca/post/6915928

See the bottom couple images.

[โ€“] Max_P@lemmy.max-p.me 3 points 2 years ago

I don't do it, but for big instances like lemmy.world I'm sure it saves them a lot of money and improves performance drastically.

Serving data from multiple locations with the current lemmy implementation is really hard, and bandwidth is really expensive. Even with an enterprise account, Cloudflare saves us a ton of money at work.

Like sure, you can self host all of that but it's usually quite expensive.

Just reducing the accesses to the pict-rs S3 bucket saves a ton of money, even if you end up using CloudFront which is also an AWS product.

[โ€“] Illecors@lemmy.cafe 1 points 2 years ago

Why would you put it behind cdn? Set up nginx caching and you'll be fine.