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lionkoryesterday at 11:50 AM1 replyview on HN

Tell me you don't know when a CDN is needed without telling me you don't know when a CDN is needed


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arrty88yesterday at 1:45 PM

> The primary purpose of the Cloudflare DNS Proxy is to act as a reverse proxy that sits between your website visitors and your origin server. When enabled, Cloudflare intercepts incoming web traffic, processes it, and shields your server from direct connections.

Maybe you are not up to date on latest trends, but modern CDN purpose is to shield the origin from the public writ large.

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