Stats

Sovereign-sourced metrics. Live self-probe of both entry paths. Binary compiled under P27 Diamond. Benchmarks verified 2026-04-14. Everything is reproducible.

Sovereign Serving — Dual-Path Live

Every request can arrive via two paths. One is Cloudflare's global edge. One is our own Rust TLS terminator sitting on residential FiOS. The site binary is live on both. This probe runs every three minutes from the same node that serves you, measuring the full loop back through each entry point.

Probe cached 180 seconds. Probe source: gd itself. "Live probe" is the full TCP + TLS + HTTP round-trip as observed from the origin node calling its own public endpoint via hairpin NAT.

approuter-acme — Pure-Rust TLS Terminator

Our Rust ACME + TLS terminator binary. Single responsibility. Issues and renews Let's Encrypt certs via DNS-01 challenge on Cloudflare. Terminates TLS on port 8443. Reverse-proxies to cochranblock. Replaces nginx + certbot + acme.sh stack with one binary.

Load Benchmarks — 2026-04-14

Three scenarios, same gd node, same /operations endpoint (70 KB HTML, no CF edge cache, no in-process cache). Python-client-GIL-limited — Rust servers have additional headroom not captured here.

P27 Diamond Rust Binary — Active Profile

This binary is compiled under the speed-Diamond profile. Compile-time settings:

[profile.release]
opt-level = 3
lto = "fat"
codegen-units = 1
strip = true
panic = "abort"
overflow-checks = false
debug = false
incremental = false

Full protocol: cochranblock.org/arch#p27 · Profile template: /diamond-profile.toml

Stack Architecture (current, live)

Every binary on this stack compiles under P27 Diamond. Every binary is All Rights Reserved. Every request can be traced from TLS handshake through NAT through reverse proxy through origin back out.

cochranblock.org vs Defense Industry

Two columns are this site — once via Cloudflare Tunnel (CF), once via the sovereign direct path (approuter-acme on FiOS). Same 10 MB Rust binary either way. TTFB is a single-connection p50 measured from a Mac on the same internet egress; direct numbers therefore reflect best-case (LAN-adjacent) latency, while CF numbers reflect a real round-trip through the Cloudflare edge.

Probe methodology: 300 sequential HTTPS GETs to /operations, single connection. Direct-path test uses NAT-loopback through Verizon FiOS → Orbi 443 → gd:8443 → approuter-acme → approuter → cochranblock — full external round-trip, not localhost. Cloudflare path adds CF edge, CF tunnel, and a cloudflared hop on top of the same backend chain. The 10x gap is pure network topology, not server work.

The Potato Index

How many potatoes does it take to power a website?

We boiled potatoes, stuck metal electrodes in them, and measured the electricity. A boiled potato produces enough power to light a small LED. So we asked: how many potatoes would it take to power each website? Same potato, same wires, same test. Every website gets the same treatment.

Translation: This entire website - the page you are reading right now - could run on 20 potatoes from the grocery store. Half a 5-pound bag. $2.50 at Walmart. The defense contractors powering their websites need 8 to 12 semi trucks full of potatoes. Amazon would need every potato on the planet. Twice. We are not the same.

1,526 Websites. One Laptop. $10/month.

Our server has 32 GB of RAM. Each site uses 20 MB. That means we can run 1,526 separate websites on this one machine, each with its own database, its own TLS, its own domain. Here is what that costs everywhere else.

The math: 10 MB binary. 20 MB RAM each. 32 GB laptop. Each site gets its own port, its own database, its own Cloudflare tunnel. Same TLS. Same uptime. You save $152,784/year vs AWS and $604,176/year vs Squarespace. Still 20 potatoes. The cloud is a potato tax.

At Scale: 50,000 Visitors

What happens when 50,000 people hit the front page? Two questions: how much data moves and how long until everyone is served.

Data transfer (pure page weight × 50,000)

Time-to-serve, by ingress (50,000 ÷ measured req/sec)

Direct-path req/s measured against this site's /operations endpoint with 300 sequential GETs at varying concurrency, run from a Mac on the same FiOS egress. CF-path req/s measured the same way through cochranblock.org. Aggregate row assumes both paths run in parallel — a real burst would split traffic between them via DNS round-robin or geo-routing.

Cloud Cost: Full Stack Replacement

A single Rust binary replaces the entire cloud stack. Real pricing from published rate cards. Two of the columns below are this site — once with CF Tunnel as the only ingress, once with both CF and the sovereign direct path running in parallel.

* The $10/mo on the "Rust + CF Tunnel" line is amortized hardware + electricity for the gd node, not money sent to Cloudflare. CF's free tier covers tunnel, anycast, TLS, DNS, and WAF at zero. The "Direct only" column has no vendor on the path at all. Domain registration (~$12/year) is the single residual line, and that's a name-system cost, not a hosting cost — the registrar is not on the request path.

ROI

Live Traffic — 30 Days

DATE           TOTAL     US     FR    CN  OTHER
────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
2026-04-12       854    484      1    17    352  ██
2026-04-13       466    335      6     8    117  █
2026-04-14     6,451  6,169      2    58    222  ███████████████
2026-04-15     1,276  1,039      3     7    227  ███
2026-04-16     1,726  1,565      0    76     85  ████
2026-04-17       782    672     10    13     87  █
2026-04-18       790    611     12    33    134  █
2026-04-19     1,372    222      0    23  1,127  ███
2026-04-20     1,060    790     13     7    250  ██
2026-04-21       776    637      0    19    120  █
2026-04-22       469    331      7    12    119  █
2026-04-23       482    409      1    20     52  █
2026-04-24       805    638      3     6    158  █
2026-04-25     1,416    890      7    25    494  ███
2026-04-26     4,663  3,848      3    31    781  ███████████
2026-04-27     1,642  1,320      9     8    305  ████
2026-04-28     5,921  1,130     19    36  4,736  ██████████████
2026-04-29     3,662  2,420     31    41  1,170  █████████
2026-04-30     1,504    782     39    63    620  ███
2026-05-01     1,029    593     24    37    375  ██
2026-05-02    12,165 11,677     31    37    420  ██████████████████████████████
2026-05-03     3,806  3,362     31    21    392  █████████
2026-05-04     5,325  1,386     26    38  3,875  █████████████
2026-05-05     1,409    587      2    39    781  ███
2026-05-06     4,101  1,058    225    32  2,786  ██████████
2026-05-07       976    486     34    35    421  ██
2026-05-08     2,560  1,281     36    46  1,197  ██████
2026-05-09     1,779    757      0    20  1,002  ████
2026-05-10     2,963    783    403    30  1,747  ███████
2026-05-11     4,427  2,182    471    22  1,752  ██████████
────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
TOTAL         76,657 48,444  1,449   860 25,904

────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
COUNTRY                   REQUESTS      %  
────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
US                          49,002  63.9%  ███████████████████████████████
NL                           6,191   8.1%  ████
HK                           4,538   5.9%  ██
CA                           3,920   5.1%  ██
BR                           2,370   3.1%  █
DE                           2,281   3.0%  █
GB                           1,655   2.2%  █
FR                           1,486   1.9%  
IN                           1,335   1.7%  
SG                           1,138   1.5%  
CN                             878   1.1%  
MA                             567   0.7%  
KR                             396   0.5%  
ES                             341   0.4%  
TH                             262   0.3%  
RU                             255   0.3%  
JP                             192   0.3%  
AU                             185   0.2%  
FI                             144   0.2%  
SE                             143   0.2%  

Repo Activity — 30 Days

REPO                  COMMITS  NODES    LAST PUSH
───────────────────────────────────────────────────────
cochranblock               31      1   2026-04-17  █████████████████████████
───────────────────────────────────────────────────────
TOTAL                      31

Daily Commits (all repos)

DATE          COMMITS
──────────────────────────────────────────────────
2026-04-14         16  ██████████████████████████████
2026-04-15          2  ███
2026-04-16         10  ██████████████████
2026-04-17          3  █████
──────────────────────────────────────────────────
TOTAL              31

Verify Everything

# Page size (HTML only)
curl -s https://cochranblock.org/ | wc -c

# Total transfer time
curl -s -o /dev/null -w "TTFB: %{time_starttransfer}s\nTotal: %{time_total}s\nSize: %{size_download} bytes\n" https://cochranblock.org/

# Count JavaScript tags (should be 0 on homepage)
curl -s https://cochranblock.org/ | grep -c '<script'

# Compare to any other site
curl -s -o /dev/null -w "%{size_download}" https://boozallen.com/

Page weights measured via Chrome DevTools Protocol (CDP) with cache disabled — real browser render, not HTML scraping. Tool: whobelooking perf (Rust + chromiumoxide). CF data cached 30 min. Cloud pricing: AWS/Azure/GCP US East, pay-as-you-go, April 2026.

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