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I love how the first comment at the end of the page asks which CDN and which load balancer the site is using, as if he's filling entire racks with this simple static website. Absolutely hilarious.

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Turns out Nginx can serve a lot of static pages very quickly. The largest page on my blog is 70KB. On a VPC with a gigabit connection, I should be able to push about 1,400 requests per second.

My blog is never going to be so popular that I need to support more throughput than that.

I think oftentimes the benefit of a CDN is not (just) performance, but also cost--sure, nginx can serve your pages plenty fast enough, but how much is your hosting provider charging you for that network traffic? The answer is generally "more than a CDN would be" (once you've used up your free bandwidth for the month, of course)

True, but I think you’d have to have one hell of a popular blog before those lines crossed.

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