Okay, so now I’m wondering about Cloudflare hosting. Yeah, despite the criticism on Wikipedia, it seems that a lot of people use it, so it should be good to go with for my own use. So they provide free hosting? Not quite. Take a good careful look at the details: they provide a free CDN, free DDoS mitigation, and free DNS proxying. For hosting, as you’ll learn from reading the information on their website carefully, that is on a hosting provider of your own, i.e. your own Raspberry Pi server.
So, Amazon also provides a CDN. They call it Cloudfront.
20180929/https://www.cloudflare.com/
20180929/https://www.cloudflare.com/plans/
20180929/https://www.cloudflare.com/cdn/
20180929/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloudflare
20180929/DuckDuckGo amazon cdn
20180929/https://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/
Oh, so I see that there is now HTTP/2 out and about. Indeed, this is closely based off of the earlier SPDY protocol that is now termed to have only been “experimental” by Google. The binary protocol of HTTP/2 is not strictly compatible with HTTP/1.1 due to the multiplexing and pipelining features of HTTP/2, but the high-level primitives are the same. Alas, HTTP/2 isn’t supported before Apache 2.4.17, and Debian Jesse only gives me Apache 2.4.10.
20180929/https://www.cloudflare.com/website-optimization/http2/
20180929/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP/2
20180929/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head-of-line_blocking
Oh, and are you looking for an implementation of HTTP/2 to use in a lightweight C web server? Look around here for references. Deuterium web server looks particularly promising.
20180929/https://github.com/http2/http2-spec/wiki/Implementations
20180929/http://robbysimpson.com/deuterium/