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I learned about git switch through comments for this article on reddit. It's definitely something I'm actively trying to adopt at the moment over my old workflow but it's soo hard to overcome years of muscle memory

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!

Comparisons were done with CloudFlare on static site, it's been a very long time since the site was based on Laravel and PHP.

I had set Browser Cache Expiration to 1 month within my CloudFlare settings as was luckily screenshotted within a previous article: https://medium.com/@elliot_f/my-journey-into-web-speed-optim...

I'm fairly sure that I had some speed optimizations set within my Nginx server block. Unfortunately, I don't have the Nginx config file to hand anymore as I've (somewhat stupidly) deleted the snapshots without taking a backup.

I was previously using Cloudflare in conjunction with a Linode server. The disadvantage of this, however, is that you need to ensure that one server never goes down otherwise anyone hitting a cold cache would see the site down.

Also, why do you need a server at all? If you are doing nothing but serving static files then why incur the overhead of maintaining LetsEncrypt certificates and writing Nginx config files? AWS provides a simple interface in which you can view and manage your static files without having to ssh into a server.

On the point of price, I'm predicting my total cost of hosting for a site serving roughly 40-45k users per month will be roughly $7/month. All whilst minimizing the amount of administration time required and monitoring of a more traditional system.

Hope this clarifies this, would be keen to hear any counter thoughts!