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Re: I am a fast webpage

#4
Just to point out, there's no particular reason to host a page like this on a VPS at all. You could just throw it on S3. Even better, you could put it behind a CDN like Cloudfront and the total cost would be a dollar or two a month, not $25+ and it would be significantly faster.

Re: I am a fast webpage

#5
> "I am not on a shared host, I am hosted on a VPS"

Hate to break it to you, but your virtual private server (VPS) is likely sharing a bare-metal server with other VPS. ;-)

Also, you can look into content delivery networks (aka CDN), which will most likely deliver this page faster to clients than your VPS especially when you consider your VPS is in Dallas and CDN's have nodes located around the world.

Re: I am a fast webpage

#7

Just to point out, there's no particular reason to host a page like this on a VPS at all. You could just throw it on S3. Even better, you could put it behind a CDN like Cloudfront and the total cost would be a dollar or two a month, not $25+ and it would be significantly faster.

Or even better, Surge.sh.

- A very happy customer.

Re: I am a fast webpage

#9

> "I am not on a shared host, I am hosted on a VPS" Hate to break it to you, but your virtual private server (VPS) is likely sharing a bare-metal server with other VPS. ;-) Also, you can look into content delivery networks (aka CDN), which will most likely deliver this page faster to clients than your VPS especially when you consider your VPS is in Dallas and CDN's have nodes located around the world.

Absolutely. Yeah that is kind of silly.
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