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

submitted 9 months ago by ericjmorey@discuss.online to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/5391072

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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[-] rimu@piefed.social 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Yes. This is why:

https://join.piefed.social/2024/02/09/comparing-network-utilization-of-lemmy-kbin-and-piefed/

https://join.piefed.social/2024/02/13/technical-performance-of-each-fediverse-platform/

[-] freamon@endlesstalk.org 2 points 9 months ago

Oh wow. That really illustrates it. Your approach to a social media site is very admirable (so much modern stuff assumes that just throwing more CPU cycles / RAM / bandwidth at the problem is a solution).