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I'm new to this stuff, but what the source article describes is essentially just that it is cheaper to run a static website with a CDN than without - right? I'm

• collinmanderson 5y ago
  > They described the cloudflare service as a cache layer rather than a CDN. Not sure how most CDNs work, but for Cloudflare, content is not actively pushed to edge nodes, it’s only pulled to an edge when needed and then cached there usually for an hour or two. The caching is still distributed, and all of the tcp+https roundtrips are done to a local data center which makes things faster. > what the source article describes is essentially just that it is cheaper to run a static website with a CDN than without - right? Right. The cost savings comes from caching done by the CDN, and public static content is super easy to cache. The distributed part makes things faster, but doesn’t necessarily save money.