@sheogorath @lioh @amolith If you're at a small scale, why would you pretend you need the services that CloudFlare provides in the first place? I understand that people watching MSM and have little knowledge of IT will think that everyone in the world is constantly being DDoSed every time they make a post on their blog, but that's just not the case.
You might notice that the CodiMD demo instance is behind Cloudflare.. The reason for that is simple: Latency.
I did tests while traveling as well as asking some people around the world. It renders the applications unusable in some cases especially in countries whose upstream bandwidth is quite limited. Cloudflare helps here due to lower latency and local caches.
That's nothing we can build ourselves.
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This RIPE75 presentation discusses in detail how we ended up in a situation where everyone had to start moving content closer to the customer and eventually ended up in hands of a couple CDN and anycast proxy providers such as CF https://ripe75.ripe.net/archives/video/106/
@kravietz @sheogorath @amolith @lioh Thanks for sharing, I haven't seen that and I was just looking around for something to watch as I do nothing for a bit!
