I guess I'm just wondering how I could piecemeal it together without using cloudflare. A friend had suggested checking out bunny DNS and that got me going down the rabbit hole.
The value proposition of a CDN is being physically closer to customers around the world, which means renting space in (often) expensive carrier hotels.
Yes yes all the major CDNs have loads of developer and infrastructure wizbangs to keep you on their platform but that’s not the fundamental value.
To butcher your an analogy, an open source gas station chain would be a publicly an available light rail; one that replaces driving for many citizens along the route.
Openness helps kill off rent seekers. This might be the deeper concept that sits behind the original authors question.
The value proposition of a CDN is being physically closer to customers around the world, which means renting space in (often) expensive carrier hotels.
Yes yes all the major CDNs have loads of developer and infrastructure wizbangs to keep you on their platform but that’s not the fundamental value.