What is happening here?

Wow - so I just build my own blog engine!

Why?

Well, I wanted something as minimal as possible that is using Oracle Database 23ai free as the main storage.

A CDN

An important detail is obviously the question of how and where to store images? Well, there are multiple options:

1. Store images locally on the VPS
2. Store images on some Object Storage
3. Use a CDN

I prefer to look at using a CDN. The main reason is the fact that my server is running in a specific region of the world. Whenever someone access the web page from the other side of the world, the overall performance perception of the webpage would suffer. While text should load fairly fast, images would longer for sure. A CDN with its geographical replication can help when it comes to images.

So, here is an image that I uploaded to a CDN: