A good sequel to http://motherfuckingwebsite.com/ , which is probably too understyled for most people.
I am a fast webpage
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Re: I am a fast webpage
#172Earlier quoted context omitted.
the guy says he's not an idiot then brags about spending $30 per month on a VPS (idiot), for a single-page static HTML website with all inline-code (idiot+1). It's not being negative to point out the glaring flaws in a person's statements. My assumption is the entire thing is an advertisement for that hosting service.
Also, whether the VPS has an SSD or not is totally irrelevant— if you really were serving a single page it would be cached in the memory of your webserver. (Or better yet, serve the thing off S3 and let Amazon be your CDN.)
I'd use github pages.
Re: I am a fast webpage
#173Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 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. I apologize for quibbling (really, I do! but I'm an infrastructure guy! This is my bag!). Yes, host it on S3, but ALWAYS put a CDN in front of S3 with long cache times (even just Cloudfront works). S3 can sporadically take hundr…
Cloudfront requires JavaScript, which isn't always acceptable. Edit: Nevermind, confused Cloudfront with Cloudflare. Thanks for the correction, toomuchtodo.
This is untrue for CloudFlare as well. Individual sites may choose to require JavaScript but you can use the service just fine without it.
Re: I am a fast webpage
#174This is odd. Clearly anyone can make a lighting fast page by making a single page since then you can have css inlined versus needing to link to css style sheets with multiple pages, and of course not having javascript would make it faster, but thats a requirement for most all typical sites these days, and loading images that way is nice for hackers but not for real people using cms's by common people and clients. Also paying $25-35 for hosting is not very bright since you can get a $5 digital ocean server ssd, not shared, that would load this particular page just as fast if not faster.
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#175I hate to be negative, but what really is the point of this? That a simple webpage without any content can be fast? Of course it can. Is it desirable to inline your CSS, "like a boss?" Maybe if you have one single web page. What if you have dynamic content and your users intend to browse more than one page? With externalized CSS, that is all cached. Same with images. If I'm building a web application, I certainly do…
We know that if speed is your goal there are tradeoffs you will have to deal with, such as inline images and css that are harder to maintain. This is a well known architectural tradeoff (along with usability vs security). If you are willing to pay for your load speed in the form of increased page complexity and reduced scalability, this is a legitimate option.
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#176looks like this whole thing is a scheme to promote his webhsting affiliate link: http://www.knownhost.com/affiliate/idevaffiliate.php?id=1136... The fastest and most reliable hosting is, by far, based on my own experience is amazon's e2 cloud and S3 bucket services.
I picture him coding this in vi with a maniacal evil laugh, thinking of all the money his scheme will make
Re: I am a fast webpage
#177> "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.
>Hate to break it to you, but
I think the pedantry is unnecessary here. "Shared hosting" colloquially refers to multiple websites sharing a single web server, database, and PHP process. Everything is set up for you by the provider, you simply supply the files. What "shared hosting" does NOT usually refer to are containers, virtual machines, bare-metal, IaaS deployment environments, or anything like that.
Re: I am a fast webpage
#178Dlang forum (with dynamic content) is insanely fast!
https://forum.dlang.org/group/general
Re: I am a fast webpage
#179Easy to make a website fast when it has nothing on it. In the real world a site isn't this light. It has images, analytic scripts, stylesheets, fonts, Javascript (jQuery at the least). Using a combination of a CDN and realistic caching, I can make a fast website as well.
Re: I am a fast webpage
#180I make my personal pages fast this way since last century. Probably a huge amount of people did the same. It's pretty obvious.
When you need fancy graphics (a static photo album), things become less easy: you e.g. may want to preload prev / next images in your album to make navigation feel fast.
Things become really tricky when you want interactivity, and in many cases users just expect interactivity from a certain page. But client-side JS is a whole another kettle of fish.
When things become ugly is when you want to extract some money from page's popularity. You need to add trackers for statistics, ad networks' code to display the ads, and complicate the layout to make room for the ads, placing them somehow inobtrusively but prominently. This is going to be slow at worst, resource-hungry at best.
(Corollary from the above: subscription is more battery-friendly than an ad-infested freebie.)