I've been running a static asset domain off a single Contabo VPS in Nuremberg for 18 months (like this: no edge nodes, no caching layer, just nginx with brotli and proper headers). Last week I benchmarked it against a competitor using Vultr's CDN; my TTFB on European connections was faster, and total page load within 3% globally. The secret is over-provisioned upstream, aggressive connection reuse, and serving everything under 1MB; static content, mind you—no video, no dynamic APIs.
The CDN-added latency on cache misses was worse than my origin's direct response. Edge nodes help if your origin is potato-grade; mine isn't.
Am I wrong here? (I might be; my sample size is two sites and a Tuesday afternoon.)
The cdn is just anothr layer of the fail cache invalidation is hardd and yuo payy forr itt sometimes runs slower thann direct cause dns lookup to edge plus edge to originn you figure it out he says
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