Totally agree - and bandwidth rates on cloud are crazy expensive [1]. The more common use-case for Supernodes are on colocated servers where you have excess cap

Totally agree - and bandwidth rates on cloud are crazy expensive [1]. The more common use-case for Supernodes are on colocated servers where you have excess capacity already - or for when you need to just deploy additional capacity for a moment (Black Friday etc), or when you have private links that are uncorrelated to the common CDN backbones (e.g. areas in Asia and Africa)[2]. If setting up Geo DNS with healthchecks is a bit much to get going - this is a self bootstrapping option that doesn't require other changes. That being said we run Geo DNS as well :) [1] https://blog.edgemesh.com/its-time-to-change-the-web-and-stop-paying-bandwidth-toll-booths-3f78d3203cee https://blog.edgemesh.com/its-time-to-change-the-web-and-sto... [2] https://blog.edgemesh.com/understanding-diversification-networks-and-nobel-prizes-114bf61247c4 https://blog.edgemesh.com/understanding-diversification-netw...