My blog is now an international success. I get like 3 hits from Google a day. That’s what they call Seomaxxing. Or not. Depends who you ask.

Nevertheless, I noticed my audience comes mostly from outside Europe. My server sits in Frankfurt, so the only reasonable choice was to put a global CDN in front of my static Astro blog.

Easy, I thought.

I jumped straight in without reading anything first. What could go wrong. A lot, actually, and I can now confirm that the error pages from Bunny.net look really nice.

Got it working anyway. Full writeup on said blog, blazing fast no matter where you are:

https://hmmr.online/posts/bunny-cdn-for-a-static-blog/

  • Gekkonen@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    1·
    2 hours ago

    Interesting read. Even though you had only medium amount of trouble, it was enough to once again convince me my earlier decision to not do this is the right one. My Hetzner instance had an extended outage for the first time in its livetime this year, and after that I considered moving to CDN. However, due to the little things you list here and your bottom line of " For a blog my size it’s most likely overkill", I decided to just run a Hetzner instance without CDN.

    Reading https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/about/ made me reconsider if 24/7 uptime with 99.9999% SLA is really that important. It’s a poster on the internet. What does it matter if the poster occasionally falls off?

  • MagicShel@lemmy.zipEnglish
    15·
    3 days ago

    My server sits in Frankfurt. So everyone overseas waits forever for what is basically a text file. Unacceptable.

    Mate my first internet connection was a 2400 baud modem. Waiting a whole second for a text file is entirely acceptable.

    No, I get it, and good job. It’s about figuring out how to do it, and good job there. I’d have done the same back in the day. I have a raspberry pi with an ssd just begging for something to do. I have more ideas than time, though. Work is consuming all of my IT energy. I’m living vicariously through you.