Comment by ZeroConcerns 4 days ago
Thank you for your service! Now, for an even bigger challenge: since it seems the increased demand for the Cloudflare status page brought down Amazon CloudFront for a bit as well, build a new CDN capable of handling that load as well...
I would guess yes, unless you have a server with unlimited file descriptors and flawless connectivity to every other AS...
"Need" is a strong word. But I think the point is that if you expect wildly spikey traffic/don't want the site to go down if it receives a very sudden influx of requests, going static is a very good answer, much cheaper than "serverless" or over-provisioning.
Do you need a CDN for a static html, no images? I would guess no, even if you.are being bombarded with requests