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Unless you are terminating TLS entirely on owned hardware, you are paying a 3rd party to manage TLS for you.

A lot of people seem to think that there is a big difference between paying a lessor (e.g. Hetzner) for a server on which you terminate TLS, paying a cloud host (e.g. Amazon) to terminate TLS, and paying a CDN (e.g. Fastly) to terminate TLS. Legally there is no difference aside from the specific language of the contracts, which you can review and negotiate in advance.

The difference security-wise is entirely down to the operations of each company, which again you can review and discuss in advance. Strictly speaking a CDN should have lower risk than a host since they are not persisting sensitive data (if you set your cache headers correctly). And as discussed above, using one domain helps avoids cross-domain security concerns.




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