deray·edge

a small, boring static asset endpoint

What this is

A single-origin endpoint that serves static files over HTTPS. It exists because three small projects kept re-uploading the same fonts, icon sprites and a handful of PDFs to whichever host they happened to be on that month, and every move broke somebody's bookmarks.

It is deliberately unambitious. There is one machine. There is no dashboard, no sign-up, no API keys and no plan to add any. Files are pushed over rsync by the two people who need to push them, and everyone else reads.

Shape of it

Origin
cdn.deray.space
Transport
HTTPS only. Plain HTTP redirects.
Location
One host in Frankfurt. No anycast, no edge fleet — the name is aspirational.
Cache policy
Immutable paths are cached for a year; everything else for an hour.
Retention
Files stay until somebody deletes them on purpose.

If you landed here from a broken image, the file was probably renamed rather than removed. The changelog records renames going back to the first upload.

Why not object storage

It was object storage for about eight months. The bill was small and the latency was fine, but every provider migration meant rewriting URLs across repositories that nobody wanted to touch. A name we control, pointed at a box we control, turned out to be the cheaper kind of boring.