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nrhrjrjrjtntbt | 1 month ago

For most applications 1 location is probably good enough.I assume HN is single location and I am a lomg way from CA but have no speed issues.

Cavaet for high scale sites and game servers. Maybe for image heavy sites too (but self hosting then adding a CDN seems like a low lock in and low cost option)

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locknitpicker|1 month ago

> For most applications 1 location is probably good enough.

If your usecase doesn't require redundancy or high-availability, why would you be using something like Cloudflare to start with?

robertcope|1 month ago

Security. I host personal sites on Linodes and other external servers. There are no inbound ports open to the world. Everything is accessed via Cloudflare Tunnels and locked down via their Zero Trust services. I find this useful and good, as I don't really want to have to develop my personal services to the point where I'd consider them hardened for public internet access.

RandomDistort|1 month ago

When you have a simple tool you have written for yourself, that you need to be reliable and accessible but also that you don't use frequently enough that it's worth the bother of running on your own server with all of that setup and ongoing maintenance.

max_lt|1 month ago

The DX is great: simple deployment, no containers, no infra to manage. I build a lot of small weekend projects that I don't want to maintain once shipped. OpenWorkers gives you the same model when you need compliance or data residency.

gpm|1 month ago

Free bandwidth. (Also the very good sibling-answer about tunnels).

Hamuko|1 month ago

Cloudflare gives me free resources. If they tomorrow reduced my blog to be available on a single region only, I'd shrug and move on with my day.

nrhrjrjrjtntbt|1 month ago

It takes a minute to setup for CDN usecase.