Add all this together and you have an extremely not basic setup at all anymore.
NARRATOR:
- "Has THIS ever happened to you?"
CUT TO:
Black-and-white. Some guy stares in frustration and confusion at a terminal. Output of 'cat /usr/bin/gcc | xxd' or whatever scroll by.
NARRATOR:
- "Introducing CloudFlare™!"
CUT TO:
Full color. Sunlight. The same guy now sprawled on grass at a park. Two dogs tackle him with adoration. His kids hand him ice cream.
NARRATOR:
- "Stop debugging. Start living."
Re-reading it you're right, but ultimately the last sentence aims at directly answering this question from the parent:
> If you added up all the outage time caused by DDOS and all the outage time caused by being behind auxiliary services that have their own outages... I wonder which would be larger?
What are the response times of requests between CF and accessing them directly?
It's not because it's not a criticism that it's a sponsored post.
I happen to have multiple sites that use the same technology (WordPress, with the same few plugins and the same theme) running on the same server, with one behind CloudFlare and one not. Left value is with CloudFlare, right is without:
- First Contentful Paint: 0.4s - 0.7s
- Largest Contentful Paint: 0.8s - 0.9s
- Total Blocking Time: 0 ms - 0 ms
- Cumulative Layout Shift: 0 - 0
- Speed Index: 0.4s - 8.9s
The difference is quite staggering, and I'm located pretty close to my server (a Hetzner VPS), I can't imagine the difference for someone that lives across the world.