The bit about being hosted on SSDs is silly. I could host that site in unused registers of my CPU.
I am a fast webpage
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#22"Look amazing on any device" ... The right edge of your text is coiled on my phone (not so amazing).
Same here.
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#23Just 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.
> 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 hundreds of milliseconds to complete a request, and you know, AWS bandwidth is expensive (and CDN invalidation is damn near free). And you can use your own SSL cert at the CDN usually instead of relying on AWS' "s3.amazonaws.com" SSL cert (although you will still rely on the that S3 SSL cert for CDN->S3 Origin connections; C'est la vie).
EDIT: It also appears Cloudfront supports HTTP/2 as of today. Hurray!
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2016/09/amazon-cl...
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#24Well, many of these points make sense.
If I'm doing a single page application, surely I'll have infrastructure in place already to compile, minify and do whatever I need to. So I could just serve the monolithic page and be done with it. Much like desktop applications used to do.
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#25"No Javascript"
Amen.
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#26Not that wickedly fast unless you're really near Dallas where the server is: https://performance.sucuri.net/domain/varvy.com Hosting on a single VPS is never gonna be very fast globally no matter what you pay your hosting. In fact our free plan on netlify would make this a whole lot faster...
Or a content delivery network containing only SSDs but this guy couldn't afford that.
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#27Not that wickedly fast unless you're really near Dallas where the server is: https://performance.sucuri.net/domain/varvy.com Hosting on a single VPS is never gonna be very fast globally no matter what you pay your hosting. In fact our free plan on netlify would make this a whole lot faster...
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#28Is this image inlining thing something new? Am I reading it correctly that the images are encoded in base64 and delivered as html? Surely this is a bad idea... no?
Base64-encoding induces a factor 1.333 size increase of the byte stream, so it's likely not worth it if the site is served on HTTP2. To get exact figures, one would of course have to calculate the size of the additional TCP packet(s) and HTTP headers.
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#29Just 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.
Yeah I notice that was weird too. The creator speaks a lot about about html optimizations but one of the most widely-used methods of page speed increases are global CDN distribution.
The SSD is really meaningless in this context. The website is so small that it will be loaded almost 100% from the filesystem cache. As long as it has more than 512 MB of ram...
If I wanted my website to load incredibly fast, I would absolutely not put it on an obscure VPS. Not that there's anything inherently wrong with it, but it's generally not going to make your site faster.
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#30The whole hosting issue seems to open a can of worm, at least if this comment stream is any indication. I think it probably would have been better if they stated something more along the lines of, 'Choose (and likely expect to pay) for some sort of superior hosting solution which will prioritize allocating resources to your site(s)'.
The general point could be made without leaving so much room for everyone to argue over specifics.