Comment by geerlingguy
7 days ago
> That difference is irrelevant day to day, but it matters during DDoS attacks, which I have experienced a few times.
This, definitely.
I think until you experience your first few DDoSes, you don't think about the kind of gains you get from going completely static (or heavily caching, sometimes at the expense of site functionality).
Jeff, you said in another thread that you don't get DDoS protection from the SSG side on Jeffgeerling, but from the cloudflare side. My whole point is that SSGs impact interactive site functionality because of how they work (basically like a cache) and you've just said here that you accept that caching often comes at the expense of functionality.
I feel like I'm going crazy here: you're both advocating for SSGs, but when pressed, it sounds like the only benefits you ever saw were to problems from many years ago, or problems which you already have alternate and more flexible solutions to.
Regardless, I'm going to hunt you down and badger you both with this thread in a few years to see where we all stand on this! Thanks again :)