HACKER Q&A
📣 rozenmd

Is your blog/website behind a CDN?


I recently released a quick tool [0] to visualise latency for websites from around the world (as tested from AWS Lambda), and was surprised to have folks let me know it convinced them to setup a CDN.

Do you have a CDN in front of your websites, HN?

[0]: https://onlineornot.com/do-i-need-a-cdn


  👤 ad404b8a372f2b9 Accepted Answer ✓
Wish you would have posted the aggregated results so we could get an idea.

I suspect if most blogs want to improve their loading time they would have better results getting rid of the 20MB of trackers before breaking the web a little further with stuff like cloudflare.


👤 toastal
CDN for my blog? Nope. That adds complexity and gives power to CDNs. Besides, CDNs and reverse proxies are blocked by SourceHut Pages anyhow (https://srht.site/limitations).

👤 mattbgates
Using Cloudflare for my WP website which recieves over 2 million visitors a month from around the world. Went from crashihng all the time to hardly ever as Cloudflare became very efficient with its cache system.

👤 muzani
I'm using Netlify (free tier). I assumed that it has a CDN and the tool confirms it, thanks!

👤 nickelcitymario
I'm on Substack with a custom domain. It uses its own CDN hosted on S3 I believe.

👤 cpach
I use AWS Amplify, it uses CloudFront under the hood.

👤 Lk7Of3vfJS2n
I'd like to see dynamic code running on a CDN.

👤 jgrahamc
Yes.

👤 indus
Yes.