> Do they have to go through a lot of hoops in order to not use 'www'? No, they don't. The claim that apex domains can't be used with CDNs is badly out of date

> Do they have to go through a lot of hoops in order to not use 'www'? No, they don't. The claim that apex domains can't be used with CDNs is badly out of date. Even a free-tier Cloudflare account supports CNAME flattening, which solves the problem just fine. https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/200169056-CNAME-Flattening-RFC-compliant-support-for-CNAME-at-the-root https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/200169056-C...