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by nkozyra 4127 days ago
Cloudflare is - in this example - just one of the 8 million (albeit as a CDN, a far wiser choice).

Ultimately that sacrifice comes down to real-time dynamic site versus having some content be static or conditionally dynamic. None of that is a symptom of PHP as the backend (unless you have a LOT of traffic).