[OpenFontLibrary] Setting up self hosting

vernon adams vern at newtypography.co.uk
Tue Oct 29 19:52:04 CET 2013


I think we could assume that someone self hosting a handfull of fonts isn’t likely to be pushing to billions of font calls, per font, every week.

Though it would be interesting to run an experiment and see what figures are possible :)



On 29 Oct 2013, at 11:19, Dave Crossland <dave at lab6.com> wrote:

> On 29 October 2013 14:11, Garrick van Buren <garrick at kernest.com> wrote:
>> Yes, cache headers can eliminate this issue for subsequent loads - assuming
>> your site is someplace people will visit repeatedly within the cache
>> lifetime.
> 
> This is why Google Fonts is better than self hosting. Its likely
> you've already cached the most popular Google Fonts.



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