I must be a bit old-fashioned but I would love to see comparisons against running a simple VM with Nginx.
> 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?
These are both incredibly complicated services and describing what they do as “caching” would be too much of a simplification.
Agreed. In many cases sites are serving local customers and a CDN is overkill, simply hosting nearby and having a half decent hosting provider is suffice. I've used OVH a number of years for small sites with UK customers, a couple of bucks a month for a reasonably specced VPS.
Pinging it just now, 20ms and since it's non-static, 50ms to fetch with curl. Fairly miniscule times.
> 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?
These are both incredibly complicated services and describing what they do as “caching” would be too much of a simplification.