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Another factor when it's a CDN is what they will/won't allow to be cached (and thus moving the point of mass-egress from your origin to their network).

Cloudflare has limits on the size of objects that can be cached, making it relatively impractical to use for a download-focused site with resources more than a few hundred MB.



To be exact, it has a limit of 512 MiB for free, pro, and business, and 5 GiB per file in enterprise. Their proxying service also has an HTTP upload body size limit of 100 MiB, which is 500 MiB for enterprise.




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