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Re:The Cuban CDN by skybrian on Friday August 19, 2016 @04:53PM (#12323384)
I haven't used Cloudflare, but aren't you paying to make your website globally available? Good access from Cuba is one small part of that. Maybe not the part you care about, but other people might - that's what happens with bundling.
Re:The Cuban CDN by Alupis on Friday August 19, 2016 @05:12PM (#12323492)
> aren't you paying to make your website globally available?

No, any website (unless blocked by a nation-state) is by default accessible globally.

Yes, Cloudflare's CDN offers increased performance for global visitors, but with so few people online in Cuba, there's very little sense in fronting the cost of building all this infrastructure just to have a Cloudflare PoP there. There's many other nations much larger and better connected that CloudFlare does not have a PoP in, so why pick Cuba?

Cubans have bigger concerns than getting a page to load a few milliseconds faster. Getting online in the first place might be a bigger concern for starters...

Re:The Cuban CDN by skybrian on Friday August 19, 2016 @05:41PM (#12323717)
You pay a CDN to get better performance (globally) than you would get by default. It's up to the provider to decide what "better performance" means and build more infrastructure to support that.

As a customer, I don't see why you think you have the right to nit-pick about how they go about this or where global reach needs to be improved (which new endpoints to open). You pay your money and they decide which countries to spend it on.

Re:The Cuban CDN by Alupis on Friday August 19, 2016 @06:34PM (#12324005)
> As a customer, I don't see why you think you have the right to nit-pick about how they go about this or where global reach needs to be improved

This was a public discussion, and therefore I have every right to "chime in".

As a paying customer, I have even more of a right to "chime in", as Cloudflare decisions may impact my business.

Putting a PoP in Cuba because "bleeding hearts from decades of terrible government policy" isn't a sound business decision. Nobody has offered any better explanation of advantages other than the novelty, and frankly, if that's the core reason... that's a bad decision and a blatant waste of money.

Re:The Cuban CDN by abricot on Monday August 22, 2016 @05:41AM (#12335118)
I don't think your proportions are right.

> Cubans have bigger concerns than getting a page to load a few milliseconds faster.

A big concern for Cubans could very well have, is having webpages load several seconds faster (I don't think we're talking miliseconds). They are paying per minute.