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There's no need to guess based on the speed of light. Test it yourself: https://www.cloudping.info https://www.cloudping.info For me, the highest was 310ms r
by comex 5y ago
There's no need to guess based on the speed of light. Test it yourself:
https://www.cloudping.info https://www.cloudping.info
For me, the highest was 310ms round trip to Singapore, so higher than your estimate but not too bad.
But this is completely beside the point. As far as I know, if you're using a CDN effectively (i.e. a large proportion of requests are hitting cache), it should be cheaper than having all requests hit your server, not more expensive. So even if you don't "need" a CDN, you might want one. This is orthogonal to the issue of bot traffic, which exists whether or not you use a CDN. If you want to use a CDN but don't mind the costs of bot traffic, you can configure CloudFlare to not show the CAPTCHAs, or use a different CDN.
- grishka 5y ago338 ms to Sydney is my worst. 234 ms to Singapore. AWS does offer a CDN, right? Somehow they do it without captchas and without me ever noticing. So I'm somewhat right at cursing at cloudflare because it's the only one actually announcing its presence by actively disrupting your browsing.
- ehutch79 5y agoCloudfront, the aws cdn, is not equivalent to the part that's showing a captcha. Only when it would have hit your server do you see the captcha, because it's proxying it, not serving cached results.