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Re:Scaling Your Static Site to a Global Market for a Fractio... by meritt on Wednesday August 15, 2018 @03:35PM (#17769015)
I'm no Cloudflare nor Cloudfront expert but these should be apples-to-apples comparisons and seeing that huge disparity in latency makes me think it's most likely a configuration issue, as all comparisons I've ever seen claim they perform roughly about the same: https://blog.latency.at/2017-09-06-cdn-comparison/

Specifically though we're talking about how long Cloudflare caches your content on their proxy/edge servers. Browser caching is irrelevant for this discussion, as speed tests of this nature should always be performed on a clean request.

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Re:Scaling Your Static Site to a Global Market for a Fractio... by emforce on Wednesday August 15, 2018 @03:55PM (#17769187)
I can't claim I am either, unfortunately. I required assistance ensuring the certs were in place and my configuration was correct when doing the migration.

And just to clarify, based on some of the articles I've read, I actually think CloudFlare may be a better choice of CDN, this post just highlights one way of achieving a global-scale website and doing it in such a way that it's resilient and cheap as chips!

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