What are the nuances of choosing hosting for a photo project?

Question

caching

Hi

Actually, the question is: what are the nuances of choosing a hosting for a project, the main part of the content of which will be photo reports from various events?
What is more important: server caching, CDN usage, link speed?
The audience at the start is Russia.

Perhaps someone has experience with such projects?

Answer 1

CDN will cover all your future needs. They will provide you with both caching and channel speed. But you only need it if you generate really a lot of static content and you need quick access to it from all places in the galaxy.
To start, a VPS with hardware for your load is usually enough and a normally configured nginx on the front with static caching.
Solve problems as they appear, use monitoring, make your system horizontally expandable and you will be happy =)

Answer 2

Restrictions on the number of files. It often happens that 1 photo turns into 4 under different resolutions. This is so as not to generate the desired size on the fly.