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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.

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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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