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by 1vuio0pswjnm7 1915 days ago
HN is also available through Cloudflare but that seems to depend on M5.

Don't take my word for it. Test it for yourself:

  printf 'GET / HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: news.ycombinator.com\r\nConnection: close\r\n\r\n' \
   |openssl s_client -connect cloudflare.com:443 -ign_eof -servername news.ycombinator.com
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dang 1915 days ago
We stopped using Cloudflare a few years ago.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18188832

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21799045

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ksec 1915 days ago
>The desire to have fewer moving parts

This actually got me thinking. Do we really need CDN? This is one of those thing we take and use without actually thinking whether we could do without it.

Interesting thought experiment.

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slig 1915 days ago
Cloudflare only proxies dynamic websites.
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robocat 1915 days ago
CloudFlare will proxy whatever site you configure, even if it is static.

Static websites will get the best speed boost from locally served assets (much reduced latency from the local POP) because the page itself can be cached (presuming headers on origin site are correctly set). Especially for page requests from international users.

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slig 1915 days ago
Sorry, I wasn't clear. What I meant was that since HN is dynamic its dynamic content is not usually cached. I mentioned specifically "dynamic" sites on my parent comment because as of this month Cloudflare can host static pages.
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