Comment by Aachen
1 year ago
> not uncommon for a single person with residential fiber to have more bandwidth than your small site hosted on a 1u box or VPS.
Then self host from your connection at home, don't pay for the VPS :). That's what I've been doing for over a decade now and still never saw a (D)DoS attack
50 mbps has been enough to host various websites, including one site that allows several gigabytes of file upload unauthenticated for most of the time that I self host. Must say that 100 mbps is nicer though, even if not strictly necessary. Well, more is always nicer but returns really diminish after 100 (in 2025, for my use case). Probably it's different if you host videos, a Tor relay, etc. I'm just talking normal websites
> 50 mbps has been enough to host various websites,
Bandwidth hasn't been a limiting factor for years for me.
But generating dynamic pages can bring just enough load for it to get painful. Just this week I had to blacklist Meta's ridiculously overactive bot sending me more requests per second than all my real users do in an hour. Meta and ClaudeBot have been causing intermittent overloads for weeks now.
They now get 403s because I'm done trying to slow them down.