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KeyCDN
Company blog · keycdn.com/blogwebsystems
KeyCDN is the company blog at keycdn.com, writing about web and systems. Since 2015, 45 different Hacker News readers have linked it 76 times, most often “CSS Preprocessors – Sass vs. LESS”. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.
Rarely recommended · 3 of 36 sampled comments recommend it?
Why HN links it
HN readers cite KeyCDN's blog as a reference on HTTP caching headers, HTTP/2 header compression, resource hints and web font performance, and link its pricing pages in CDN cost comparisons.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 36 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
KeyCDN is a high performance content delivery network (CDN). Our global network will deliver any digital content, such as a website, software, or game, at a blazing fast speed.
Most-linked posts?
- /pricing4 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2015-06-28
- /4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2015-10-22
- CSS Preprocessors – Sass vs. LESS3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2016-07-20
- /blog/http-cache-headers2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-11-07
- Awesome Web Development Tools and Resources2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-02-12
- Let’s Encrypt Leaves Beta – HTTPS Statistics2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-04-21
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-02-14
- /support/the-growth-of-web-page-size/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-09-11
- /blog/oocss2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-01-04
- Case Study – Analyzing Web Font Performance2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-05-05
What Hacker News says?
Why do you think that is a bad header compression scheme for a static protocol where the majority of traffic contains those headers/values repeated over and over? That indexed table shaves about 30% off header size. https://www.keycdn.com/blog/http2-hpack-compression
Comment linking /blog/http2-hpack-compression
on “Etcd, or, why modern software makes me sad”Submitted Awesome Web Development Tools and Resources as a story · 89 points
HN discussionYou could also set up a cookie-free domain and have your static assets accelerated by the CDN while keeping your files (which send cookies) on a separate domain. You can still use a CDN in this case however, by default files with cookies cannot be cached on a CDN's edge servers. Some CDNs have the ability to exclude the cookie from the static file such as KeyCDN which allows you to ignore the cookie and/or strip it…
Comment linking /support/pull-zone-settings/
on “Why use www?”Submitted 25 Chrome DevTools Tips and Tricks as a story · 22 points
HN discussionI believe it's still worth it. Using a CDN will definitely help speed up the delivery of your static assets especially to those who are further away from your origin server. They're also quite simple to set up as there are many Wordpress plugins out there that allow you to simply enter your CDN url which will rewrite your current static asset URLs (e.g. CDN Enabler). Using a pay-as-you-go CDN service would likely be…
Comment linking /
on “A Beginner's Guide to Scaling to 11M+ Users on Amazon's AWS”Submitted Analyzing HTTPS Performance Overhead as a story · 10 points
HN discussionWhat are some EU based alternatives? Edit: I found https://european-alternatives.eu/alternative-to/cloudflare , which lists among others: https://bunny.net/ , https://www.keycdn.com/ , https://blazingcdn.com/ , https://www.myrasecurity.com/en/product-content-delivery-net... , https://www.leaseweb.com/cdn . If anyone has any personal experiences with any of these please share.
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on “Among European Companies That Use a CDN, Nearly 9 in 10 Use Cloudflare”Submitted Free CDNs – Utilizing Open Source in Your Projects as a story · 7 points
HN discussionPHP 5.4..? I'd recommend setting up WP Super Cache (which you're using now) to serve static HTML files (not sure what caching method you are using). Then you need to configure Apache (or switch to nginx) to actually look for those files, otherwise the plugin won't do much (it generates PHP files by default which are taxing on the server). Another option would be to switch to the Cache Enabler plugin (along with Apac…
Comment linking /support/wordpress-cache-enabler-plugin
on “Pinephone – “Community Edition: PostmarketOS” Linux smartphone”Submitted Top 10 Web Crawlers and User-Agents as a story · 7 points
HN discussionI use https://www.keycdn.com which has free letsencrypt
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on “Building Your Own CDN for Fun and Profit”Submitted KeyCDN Enables HTTP/2 HPACK Compression, Huffman Encoding as a story · 7 points
HN discussionHaving correct cache headers helps as well, as a single visitor probably comes back to the page fairly often, or visits another page with shared assets. It's surprising how often some things that should be cached come back with headers that make it uncacheable by the browser. KeyCDN has a pretty comprehensive guide: https://www.keycdn.com/blog/http-cache-headers
Comment linking /blog/http-cache-headers
on “Surviving the front page of Hacker News on a 50 Mbps uplink”Submitted Resource Hints – What Is Preload, Prefetch, and Preconnect? as a story · 6 points
HN discussionNah. $.04/GB is practical. https://www.keycdn.com/pricing
Comment linking /pricing
on “Show HN: Strimpack – roll your own livestreaming portal, chat, subs, and forum”Submitted Hardening Your HTTP Security Headers as a story · 6 points
HN discussionIts a vue.js site that I host statically on Netlify, with django backend on heroku that pulls all the data. The trick to get things to load quickly is caching the data on https://www.keycdn.com/ (with the right headers you can set it up that the CDN queries the slow pages in the background and serves the cached ones meanwhile to keep things near real-time). I might do a writeup about that it took me a while to figur…
Comment linking /
on “The Bitcoin Blockchain Visualized in 3D”Submitted Top 15 Website Monitoring Tools as a story · 5 points
HN discussionTrue, but if you compare to AWS, the S3 "First 10 TB / Month" tier is $0.09 per GB [1], and the Cloudfront "First 10TB" north America tier is $0.085 per GB and more for other regions [2] - or if you look at KeyCDN [3] for America that's $0.04 per GB, and again more for other regions. So HillRat's $0.05/GB figure isn't the most expensive out there :) [1] https://aws.amazon.com/s3/pricing/ [2] https://aws.amazon.com/c…
Comment linking /pricing
on “Popular Patreon creators are being hit with Vimeo price hikes”Submitted What Is the Difference Between HTTP and HTTPS? as a story · 5 points
HN discussionHere's a pricing example: https://www.keycdn.com/pricing
Comment linking /pricing
on “Show HN: LonelyPage – One page is all you need”Submitted Let’s Encrypt Leaves Beta – HTTPS Statistics as a story · 5 points
HN discussion> How are GET requests a crutch? They were not in the original spec IIRC. URL's are limited in legth (it's not in the spec, but most clients have a limit) etc. > Which is what any caching proxy must do anyway? Nope. A caching proxy can benefit from HTTP Cache Headers [1]. But cache headers don't work well with GraphQL's GET requests, and don't work at all with the default, which is POST. > This problem is not limite…
Comment linking /blog/http-cache-headers
on “Go in Production – Lessons Learned”Submitted Bootstrap vs. Foundation – Top 2 CSS Frameworks as a story · 4 points
HN discussionIt's a combination of different headers that's hard to sum up in a short comment. A good article on the subject should talk about all these headers: Expires, Cache-control, Etag, Pragma, Vary, Last-Modified Key CDN has an article on it. They certainly would have experience and expertise there. I didn't read the whole thing, but it seems to have it covered: https://www.keycdn.com/blog/http-cache-headers There's also…
Comment linking /blog/http-cache-headers
on “New HTTP standards for caching on the modern web”Submitted The Lowdown on Dynamic CDN Content as a story · 4 points
HN discussionYes, but that is all the CSS you will ever need to have. If you assume an average of 2.3MB[0] on the common page, that is about 3% of your project size for CSS that will not grow past that (atomic approach implies that you won't change it as we add more styles to your page(s)). [0] https://www.keycdn.com/support/the-growth-of-web-page-size/
Comment linking /support/the-growth-of-web-page-size/
on “CSS in JavaScript is like replacing a broken screwdriver with your favorite hammer”Submitted X-Frame-Options – How to Combat Clickjacking as a story · 4 points
HN discussionYour quip here ignores the original conversation, which is about "dev tools for designers." You also conflate the "bygone days" of slower connections with the "bygone days" of monolithic rich media binaries/downloads. Average web page size has increased dramatically over the last decade [1][2], suggesting "massive sites" are more of a today-problem than a bygone one. I understand "Flash" was the trigger-word here, a…
Comment linking /support/the-growth-of-web-page-size/
on “It's Time for a DevTools for Designers”Submitted Top 12 Browser Compatibility Testing Tools as a story · 4 points
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