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by apitman 800 days ago
Unless you're running a site that you know is constantly getting hits from all over the globe, using a CDN will make your site load slower for some users.

And you almost certainly don't need one for scaling purposes. I've handled frontpage traffic multiple times without.

What I wish existed (or maybe does) is something like a CDN with ~8 global locations that promises to keep your static site in a warm cache for a small fee, without me having to set up a fly.io app manually. That would let my blog always load fast anywhere on the planet even for the first hit in a region.
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supriyo-biswas 800 days ago
You're looking for a CDN with an integrated storage service, bunny.net has that feature[1]. They also have a volume tier for cheaply serving files[2] which seems to meet your need for a low PoP count (with some discounts to go along with it).

[1] https://support.bunny.net/hc/en-us/articles/360017093479-Und...

[2] https://bunny.net/network/

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KomoD 800 days ago
> What I wish existed (or maybe does) is something like a CDN with ~8 global locations that promised to keep your static site in a warm cache for a small fee

cloudflare cache reserve or bunny.net as someone else mentioned

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madeofpalk 800 days ago
> What I wish existed (or maybe does) is something like a CDN with ~8 global locations that promised to keep your static site in a warm cache for a small fee

IIRC this is what Cloudflare Argo is supposed to do? https://www.cloudflare.com/en-gb/application-services/produc...

Rather than routing cache misses to origin, it'll route to other PoPs with the cached content?

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