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The old internet shows signs of quietly coming back

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622 points ColinWright | 1 comments | 25 Jan 22 22:24 UTC | HN request time: 0.209s | source
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squarefoot ◴[26 Jan 22 07:41 UTC] No.30082865[source]▶
Slightly related: I may want to contribute to the cause by building a very small personal site on a broadband connection (unfiltered public dynamic IP plus DuckDns) after I solve some health problems and relocate, hopefully within a few months. If I'm lucky I should get a better connection than the roughly 60down/22up I have now, which would seem ridiculous for that use, but I'd make a strictly static site, no Javascript, small images and no or extremely small downloads (torrent might help for bigger ones, if any). I don't plan to build any community around it, just to document projects I would discuss on newsgroups and possibly here, so no user input would be involved. Anyone here who had a similar experience can share more information, caveats, suggest tools, etc? Thanks.
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1. BenjiWiebe ◴[26 Jan 22 19:44 UTC] No.30090651[source]▶
Are you saying 22Mbps upload is ridiculous for hosting a website? I may be parsing your comment wrong...

Anyways if it's a static site with little JS and not too many smallish images, that'll be plenty of bandwidth for a personal site. If a page load is 1MB (that's a lot for this sort of website!) that'll let you serve up to ~2.75 requests per second/86.4k requests per day which is a lot of traffic! And if the burst is double that, then your page load will merely take twice as long.