People used to post stuff to their own websites all the time. And when someone had a cool website and it blew up from getting shared on reddit and hitting the front page, the site would go down because 50,000 people were trying to access a webpage that could serve, at most, 1% of that volume at a time. This means you now have to contract with a CDN like Cloudflare if you expect to operate at scale (which you probably won’t). So people started posting to reddit or Facebook or whatever because there was a 0% chance of that happening. This article addresses those issues but also acknowledges that there aren’t any real solutions at the moment.
People used to post stuff to their own websites all the time. And when someone had a cool website and it blew up from getting shared on reddit and hitting the front page, the site would go down because 50,000 people were trying to access a webpage that could serve, at most, 1% of that volume at a time. This means you now have to contract with a CDN like Cloudflare if you expect to operate at scale (which you probably won’t). So people started posting to reddit or Facebook or whatever because there was a 0% chance of that happening. This article addresses those issues but also acknowledges that there aren’t any real solutions at the moment.