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If you really care about the low latencies, you might want to not pull up megabytes of JavaScript libraries to simply render up a few bytes of text.

I have a single server on another continent, yet my pages load several times faster than any of these Cloudflare-powered websites served from another part of town.

Let's Encrypt itself is an artificial construct that your homepage would hardly benefit from, and where Cloudflare reaps the most benefits from by having it be a selling point that noone outside of commercial entities ought to need in the first place.