If OP enabled gzip then this 36mb would be 13mb.
If OP reduced 30 months of posts in rss to 12 months then this 13mb would be 5mb a day.
Using Cloudflare free plan and this static content is cached without any problem.
If OP reduced 30 months of posts in rss to 12 months then this 13mb would be 5mb a day.
Using Cloudflare free plan and this static content is cached without any problem.
I think making clients behave correctly is much more sustainable solution, although we could do better than doing so at the cost of the end users.