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How to setup a practically free CDN using Backblaze B2 and Cloudflare

⚠️ Note 2023-01-21
Some things have changed since I originally wrote this in 2016. I have updated a few minor details, and the advice is still broadly the same, but there are some new Cloudflare features you can (and should) take advantage of. In particular, pay attention to Trevor Stevens' comment here from 22 January 2022, and Matt Stenson's useful caching advice. In addition, Backblaze, with whom Cloudflare are a Bandwidth Alliance partner, have published their own guide detailing how to use Cloudflare's Web Workers to cache content from B2 private buckets. That is worth reading,

Latency Comparison Numbers (~2012)

Name
L1 cache reference 0.5 ns
Branch mispredict 5 ns
L2 cachereference 7 ns 14x L1 cache
Mutex lock/unlock 25 ns
Main memory reference 100 ns 20x L2 cache, 200x L1 cache
Compress 1K bytes with Zippy 3,000 ns 3 us
@peterdemin
peterdemin / .vimrc
Last active January 15, 2022 17:21
My .vimrc for Python development
set nocompatible
filetype off
set rtp+=~/.vim/bundle/vundle/
call vundle#rc()
" let Vundle manage Vundle
" required!
Bundle 'gmarik/vundle'
@corny
corny / dynv6.sh
Last active April 10, 2024 07:42
Update script for dynv6.com to set your IPv4 address and IPv6 prefix
#!/bin/sh -e
hostname=$1
device=$2
file=$HOME/.dynv6.addr6
[ -e $file ] && old=`cat $file`
if [ -z "$hostname" -o -z "$token" ]; then
echo "Usage: token=<your-authentication-token> [netmask=64] $0 your-name.dynv6.net [device]"
exit 1
fi
@mgreensmith
mgreensmith / Slack_solarized_themes
Last active May 2, 2024 18:14
Solarized themes for Slack
Solarized
#FDF6E3,#EEE8D5,#93A1A1,#FDF6E3,#EEE8D5,#657B83,#2AA198,#DC322F
Solarized Dark
#073642,#002B36,#B58900,#FDF6E3,#CB4B16,#FDF6E3,#2AA198,#DC322F