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by tatersolid 2850 days ago
> understand that if you do a PULL only CDN, you're not going to gain big benefits.

This statement makes no sense. A CDN edge node is just a cache; its size and your access patterns determine the hit ratio.

At $dayjob we get Nginx cache hit ratios on our edge in excess of 99% for “an origin fetch” setup. That is a very large benefit.

Cloudflare works entirely on origin fetch. They seem to be doing okay.