<story><title>Benchmarking static website hosting providers</title><url>https://www.savjee.be/2020/05/benchmarking-static-website-hosting-providers/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>klodolph</author><text>I must be a bit old-fashioned but I would love to see comparisons against running a simple VM with Nginx.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Google Cloud’s regional and multi-regional buckets perform fairly alike. Interestingly, both are much faster than S3, which is a comparable service. Is Google doing some caching behind the scenes?&lt;p&gt;These are both &lt;i&gt;incredibly complicated services&lt;/i&gt; and describing what they do as “caching” would be too much of a simplification.</text></comment>
<story><title>Benchmarking static website hosting providers</title><url>https://www.savjee.be/2020/05/benchmarking-static-website-hosting-providers/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>vbtechguy</author><text>Cloudflare doesn’t cache HTML pages by default only static files &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;support.cloudflare.com&amp;#x2F;hc&amp;#x2F;en-us&amp;#x2F;articles&amp;#x2F;200172516&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;support.cloudflare.com&amp;#x2F;hc&amp;#x2F;en-us&amp;#x2F;articles&amp;#x2F;200172516&lt;/a&gt;. You need to specifically tell Cloudflare to cache HTML pages via page rules etc &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;support.cloudflare.com&amp;#x2F;hc&amp;#x2F;en-us&amp;#x2F;articles&amp;#x2F;202775670&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;support.cloudflare.com&amp;#x2F;hc&amp;#x2F;en-us&amp;#x2F;articles&amp;#x2F;202775670&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Cloudflare Workers don’t cache by default either for HTML pages only static files unless you write the Worker to cache HTML pages.&lt;p&gt;So if they tested on default index.html page then it would of been a Cloudflare Cache miss&amp;#x2F;bypass which may explain their results.</text></comment>