that is comical but doing what is described in this post in the 90s would have required load-balanced tower PCs strategically located all around the world, with another few computers acting as a load balancer, all maintaining copies of the website and cached server responses, and an expensive SSL certificate

we get all that for free now or 50 cents a month, just for static websites

there is almost no comparison, except for acknowledging that the plumbing sucks, all of which you can make better if you want.