In an attempt to improve privacy and speed for CyberHost visitors I decided to stop using Bunny CDN. Yes stop using a CDN, call me crazy! The reason b

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2021-06-16 11:30:05

In an attempt to improve privacy and speed for CyberHost visitors I decided to stop using Bunny CDN. Yes stop using a CDN, call me crazy! The reason being that if the page was not cached in that region I was seeing load times of over 14 seconds which is just ludicrous! Even I'm not that patient to load in a quality website!

Previously I was thinking of the idea of removing the CDN to increase user privacy as technically they Man In The Middle (MITM) all traffic to cache the content. I was also having headaches fine-tuning the caching as it was occasionally distributing outdated content.

Last week after some testing I transitioned CyberHost off Bunny CDN so now visitors make a direct connection to the server. Therefore you may have noticed longer loading times from US/Asia as the server is located in Germany.

Big shoutout to Fastly.com for recently taking half the internet offline (BBC News Aritcle). Resulting in some free advertising for Varnish an open source caching server.