[ryanlol]

> caching optimizations (what most users care about)

Cloudflare does a really shitty job at that though, I've literally never seen them beat a reasonably configured nginx instance running on GCE or even OVH. (That is for a single instance serving both EU and US markets).

It's honestly baffling that anyone who isn't drowning in bandwidth bills would use them, but I guess antiviruses and PC optimizers are a big industry too.

[LoSboccacc]

eh it's a very cheap way to go around delivery speed problems - just know what the tradeoff are and you're golden.

using subdomains one can easily partition bulk traffic which needs caching from secure traffic that requires end to end encryption, and benefit from having a tenth of server hits

sure everyone can host his caches and be better off. but that cost money, and localizing traffic to reduce latency costs even more money. hard to beat free.

[ryanlol]

>sure everyone can host his caches and be better off. but that cost money, and localizing traffic to reduce latency costs even more money. hard to beat free.

My entire comment was about refuting this.

You don't need to host your own caches to be better off, you'll be better off by simply not having cloudflare in front of your server (even for transatlantic pageloads!).