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 […]

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.

Read How much difference does a CDN make to a fediverse instance?

  • poVoqEnglish
    3•9 months ago

    On a side-note, I just had a look at Piefed, I like their topics list: https://piefed.social/topics

    Ugh, that is a total anti-feature that hides away the unique characteristics of communities and increases moderation work-load significantly :(

    • @[email protected]English
      2•9 months ago

      As someone else commented, they could work as tags that communities could apply to themselves