Comment by matt-p
3 months ago
You outsource it because clouflare have more locations than you so offer lower latency and can offer it at a cost that's cheaper or the same price as doing it yourself.
3 months ago
You outsource it because clouflare have more locations than you so offer lower latency and can offer it at a cost that's cheaper or the same price as doing it yourself.
Which suggests its expensive enough for it to be unlikely they just have the capacity lying around to spin up.
To the contrary, CDN pricing will usually beat cloud provider egress fees.
Common example: you can absolutely serve static content from an S3 bucket worldwide without using a CDN. It will usually scale OK under load. However, you're going to pay more for egress and give your customers a worse experience. Capacity isn't the problem you're engineering around.
For a site serving content at scale, a CDN is purpose-built to get content around the world efficiently. This is usually cheaper and faster than trying to do it yourself.
That is not what I said. I said DO will not have the spare capacity because its too expensive. Can you please tell me who DO pay egress fees to?
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