Depends on the layer we're talking about. You can replicate CI/CD with simple scripts and git hooks, but hosting your site from ~300 locations is going to take

Depends on the layer we're talking about. You can replicate CI/CD with simple scripts and git hooks, but hosting your site from ~300 locations is going to take some money. I'm not advocating Cloudflare because they're doing something special, it's because they're doing something utterly menial, for free and better than any one person or small company could. It's absolutely right be be cognisant of service dependencies but none exist here. They're just making a dull job easier.