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> I'm also curious how much of that bandwidth couldn't be offset by a CDN or mirrors

As you say, at $40/m it's academic for a lot of people, but AFAIK, the whole site is static, so presumably if you put it behind Cloudflare’s free tier it would serve all but the file downloads from the edge. A pure guess, but I'd imagine that would mean serving 75% of requests from the edge.

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Look again. The entire Althttpd website is 100% dynamic. Notice that the hyperlink at the very top of this HN article is to a Markdown file (althttpd.md). A CGI runs to convert this into HTML for your web-browser.

The core SQLite website has a lot of static content, but there are dynamic elements, such as Search (https://www.sqlite.org/search?s=d&q=sqlite) and the source code repository (https://www.sqlite.org/src/timeline?n=100&y=ci).

So far today, 23.48% of HTTP requests to the sqlite.org domain are for dynamic content, according to server logs.

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