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by martin_a 2542 days ago
Why do people even use Cloudflare so extensively?

Using a CDN is not essential for every website. Just get yourself some shared webhosting or whatever for your tech blog and you are good to go, no need for fancy CDNs that go down like this.

Or is it just because it's fancy tech?
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skilled 2542 days ago
SEO definitely puts a lot of pressure on people. Most guides these days talk about performance, and performance is directly linked with services such as CDN's.

But like you say, this can definitely be resolved through Web Servers and resource optimisation.

For WordPress blogs, OpenLiteSpeed has been a godsend to run a WP blog with up to par performance.

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martin_a 2542 days ago
Yeah, I know. I've developed with/for WordPress for 10 years and most performance issues can easily be mitigated by optimizing your resources, using caching and more. I never had to rely on CDNs for good performance, though, also SEO agencies try to sell you this. Hard to explain to customers, though.
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