alt Hacker NewsCloudflare R2 doesn't distribute files globally. They only cache requested files in PoPs. So then it would function the same as an API behind the Cloudflare CDN.
Cloudflare R2 doesn't distribute files globally. They only cache requested files in PoPs. So then it would function the same as an API behind the Cloudflare CDN.
It would skip the Cloudflare to server network hop that the author mentions being rather expensive for cache misses.