[dorianj]

The unlabeled referral link here at the end praising his host bothers me a bit -- shouting praises for a good service is fine, but at least note that you are getting a kick back.

> Because I know I will get an angry email or two, just let me say this. I know that Cloudflare touts other features such as security, load balancing, and keeping your site up if your server is offline. I did not test or take any of these features into account. Their biggest sector is to people that want to speed their website up, so I took them to the task on just that claim.

If this is true and people really think that CDN = faster site, then it's a misunderstanding, perhaps perpetuated by malicious marketing by the CDNs themselves.

But putting a proxy in front of an unloaded site (hosted on a relatively fast server) is of course unnecessary.

Re-run the test using `ab2' instead of simple 3-hit tests, and that's when the CDN becomes more useful. Or perhaps host the site on an oversold bargain shared server and see how it fares.