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Where does he host his email? It doesn't say.

Also, his website is very slow, probably because he's not using a CDN. A noble goal, but it has an impact on credibility. The slow website makes me feel like he doesn't care about user experience, which makes me assume that is true for his whole setup, and turns me off from even considering it.

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That’s a massive jump to make when he is probably being beaten to hell by HN right now. That’s not a reasonable chain of expectation. Reevaluate your logic.

In 2021, HN doesn't make that much traffic. Any decently built website should be able to handle it, if the owner cares about the user experience.

"HN doesn't make that much traffic" Cite your sources, that claim sounds made up. Your inference that if somebody doesn't use a CDN or have acceptable load times for you, that they don't care about user experience, and so their opinion on self hosting is not worth listening to is absurd.

Well here is a link about someone who made the front page in January: https://nicklafferty.com/blog/what-happens-when-you-re-on-th...

They said they got 18,000 hits in one day. That's a tiny amount of traffic for any decent static website (which this one that we are talking about is). Even assuming they got all that traffic in one hour, that's only 5 requests per second.

Poking around the source code I see the time on the cache is after this comment so I feel the issue is more likely cache configuration wasn't prepared for frontpage of HN. Anecdotally, I'm not experiencing any performance issues anymore.

Why should he care about your user experience, for his own personal apps?

I'm assuming that if he doesn't care about his website being performant for others, which is its main purpose, then he doesn't care about his other apps doing their main job well either.

Some people want to write. Some people want to be read.

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