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?

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[–] rezz@lemmy.world 39 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

We need an encyclopedia of posts/content like this that is the masterbook of Fediverse ops and scaling "how-to."

[–] Fudoshin@feddit.uk 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Go on then sailor. Be the change you want to see!

[–] haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com 6 points 1 year ago

This should be paragraph one

[–] Blaze@reddthat.com 19 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Thank you for sharing, interesting topic!

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

[–] freamon@endlesstalk.org 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Flippin' eck. Seeing a familiar Lemmy post on there, clicking it and seeing the whole thing render instantly was a bit of a shock after getting used to Lemmy's more pedestrian loading of stuff.

[–] rimu@piefed.social 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Yes. This is why:

https://join.piefed.social/2024/02/09/comparing-network-utilization-of-lemmy-kbin-and-piefed/

https://join.piefed.social/2024/02/13/technical-performance-of-each-fediverse-platform/

[–] freamon@endlesstalk.org 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh wow. That really illustrates it. Your approach to a social media site is very admirable (so much modern stuff assumes that just throwing more CPU cycles / RAM / bandwidth at the problem is a solution).

[–] rimu@piefed.social 3 points 1 year ago

Thanks :)

[–] Blaze@reddthat.com 4 points 1 year ago

It is indeed a nice change

[–] MBM@lemmings.world 3 points 1 year ago

Oh I love the topics list. It already helped me discover a new community. I assume right now it's curated by someone, would be cool if there was a way for communities to just apply tags to themselves. They could even be turned into hashtags, whenever someone posts to that community, as a kind of link to Mastodon.

[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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 :(

[–] Blaze@reddthat.com 2 points 1 year ago

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