Comment by withinboredom
18 days ago
> The key difference is with cloudflare your site is globally distributed by default, and you get to buy into the whole ecosystem, if you want.
The real question nobody asks: do you even really need global distribution?
Most of the time: no
But sometimes you do have clients in both sides of the atlantic and it's nice being able to cut their request times by a few hundred ms "for free". Personally, that's not the main reason I use cloudflare, but it can be handy!