DNS
First steps into Cloudflare
While writing about Cloudfront, I came accross another CDN service called Cloudflare. The free entry price made me suspicious, hosting and transport has a price. Since I had nothing to loose and that this domain was new, I decided to give it a try. So far, didn’t find any dirty trick.
What is Cloudflare? CDN is one of the features, but in fact, they do more than just delivery.
Content Delivery Network They place themselves in the CDN category.
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Skip use of CDN near hosting region
The server hosting this domain is a VPS hosted in Switzerland by Nimag network SàRL. Access speed from Asia is pretty bad, specially due to network latency on the pipes Singapore-US and US-Europe. In using a CDN to serve assets, we improve global page loading time in lowering the loading times of assets.
The VPS has a good European connexion, there is not much need for visitors in Europe to use a CDN.
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