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by matt_heimer 250 days ago
They can use keepalive but it's likely the small sites are not getting enough traffic on the edge nodes to maintain the connections.

You don't think taking a small hit on TTFB is a good trade off for the improved scaling that a CDN offers?

Gone are the days that you don't have to worry about bot traffic being a DDOS. An unresponsive site is a lot worse than an extra TCP/TLS setup.