Introducing Surge – The CDN for Front-End Developers
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From what I can see, 192.241.214.148 is only announced by AS14061 which is owned by Digital Ocean.
Webpagetest[0] seems to report that there is no CDN on surge.sh, which is also served from 192.241.214.148.
Am I missing something, or the websites are only served from one location ?
The standup is modest at this point for testing purposes as we need to iterate quickly based off initial feedback. We didn't do that with the Harp Platform and it made things challenging initially.
This is the same backend system that the Harp platform which is deployed to about 10-12 AWS servers which has been in production for about 18 months.
We are currently testing out Digital Ocean and are deciding if we roll this out on their infrastructure or piggyback off the Harp Platform system - or something else all together.
If your concern is that this is just a rails app or something similar it is not.
This is a distributed system built with NodeJS, HAProxy, ZeroMQ, and Redis. Edge nodes have a global dedupe cache to ensure each file is distributed across the network only once.
Over time the architecture will be revealed for people to evaluate if it is right for them. Sorry that hasn't been fully provided at this time. We're a pretty lean shop and these things take time.
Edit: Also, I should mention that surge.sh isn't self hosted. It is served with express.