I must be missing something, are you able to elaborate on how CentralizedPro Flare for $20 solves the OPs problems?
I've accessed plenty of sites physically located in the USA from various EU countries, not to mention AUS and I didn't notice much difference as long as they had a good interconnect.
Maybe not the best for YouTube, but there's only a few of those.
Don't get me wrong, I see the appeal and fell for CF early on but not a fan anymore since they've grown into such a behemoth.
Good network connectivity makes a huge difference.
Back in the day when Joyent ran their public cloud you could beat Cloudflares free plan from Joyents Japan datacenter by a tiny amount in most cases.
Anyway, those days are gone and Cloudflare provides great value and probably the best quality network available. So if you have the problem they solve then you would be a fool to not put some serious thought into considering them.
> Don't get me wrong, I see the appeal and fell for CF early on but not a fan anymore since they've grown into such a behemoth.
> Absolutely power corrupts absolutely.
This seems to capture the gist of the argument clearly. I hadn't realized cloudflare had grown large enough to fall into the "too big to not be evil" bucket already.
I've accessed plenty of sites physically located in the USA from various EU countries, not to mention AUS and I didn't notice much difference as long as they had a good interconnect.
Maybe not the best for YouTube, but there's only a few of those.
Don't get me wrong, I see the appeal and fell for CF early on but not a fan anymore since they've grown into such a behemoth.
Absolutely power corrupts absolutely.