We handle 80TB and 5M page views a month for under $400 (blog.polyhaven.com)

Article summary

The article discusses how Poly Haven, a website offering free 3D assets, handles 80TB of bandwidth and 5M page views per month for under $400. The website uses a combination of Cloudflare, Backblaze, Vercel, and Google Firestore to achieve this. Cloudflare's caching layer and the Bandwidth Alliance play a crucial role in reducing costs. The website's infrastructure is designed to be modular and scalable.

Main themes

• Cloudflare and bandwidth costs
• CDN and caching strategies
• Infrastructure and scalability
• Cost optimization
• Low-latency and high-throughput
• Static vs dynamic websites
• Spinning hard disks vs SSDs

What commenters say

• Cloudflare's business model and partnerships allow it to offer affordable bandwidth solutions.
• The use of spinning hard disks can be sufficient for serving static files, but may not be ideal for dynamic websites.
• Low-latency, global CDN is a priority for Poly Haven, and Cloudflare Argo is used to achieve this.
• Some commenters argue that optimizing for low-latency is unnecessary for file downloads, which depend on throughput rather than time to first byte.
• Others point out that round-trip latency has a significant impact on TCP throughput, making low-latency important for high-traffic websites.
• The cost of bandwidth is relatively low, and Cloudflare's pricing is competitive with other solutions.
• The article's focus on Cloudflare's role in reducing costs oversimplifies the complexity of the website's infrastructure and the trade-offs involved in choosing different solutions.