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It's free and only a slight hassle to setup behind CloudFlare.
by BLKNSLVR 4y ago
It's free and only a slight hassle to setup behind CloudFlare.
- gruez 4y ago> It's free and only a slight hassle to setup behind CloudFlare. that nullifies some of the advantages being touted.
- Theodores 4y agoIt is in the spirit of the article. I have my dev domain on Cloudfront with my origin server being my very own laptop. I have Certbot working great and the only permissible traffic to my home router is from the CDN. CDNs still have advantages when sending everything through uncached in how it cuts down on the handshaking needed to deliver static content. This arrangement enables me to develop on a range of devices without having to do anything complicated with DHCP so my phone can see a dev domain on my laptop. It just works. Having got this far and it working so well, I now wonder if I even need a properly hosted website if I can just patch through to an old PC under the stairs for that to manage the content the CDN can't just render. It would be a lot cheaper that way. CDNs are brilliant even if people in marketing tout their benefits without knowing how to set one up.