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points by temp0826 1 day ago | 0 comments
I guess I'm just confused on who the actual target for this is (running your blog on 7 different servers around the world is uh...something...but I wouldn't call it practical/realistic). I wouldn't think that this type of thing is the first thing you reach for if your situation is actually calling for geobalancing (what level of the stack should this problem be solved, is maybe closer to what I'm asking).
[–] cortesoft 1 day ago
You are right, this is literally the exact use case for a CDN; serving static content around the world with low latency. You only need one origin server, or two for redundancy.
[–] vbernat 1 day ago
Of course, my setup is overkill. It's mostly something to play with.

But, I also serve HTML pages "myself." CDN is only used for assets. I want to control the integrity of the content. CSS and JavaScript files served by the CDN are protected by an integrity hash (SRI). If I could, I would also include images in this, but this is not possible (and not something that looks planned).