Cloudflare Edge Cache/ Cache reserve, or a Media CDN
Hey everyone, I've been trying to get my mind around the whole content delivery network thing. I am looking to optimize load times of my images in different regions.
My current setup is: A VPS located in Germany (hosting is hetzner), which hosts a nextjs app, and a directus cms, both proxied through cloudflare
The images are stored on my drive (that's how directus does it), and are served through a url, that is proxied through cloudflare. The images are transformed using the cms api.
What I wanted to do was have these images be served from different locations, to improve the speed.
I was thinking of either having the images on Amazon S3 instead, and serving them with cloudfront. Another idea I had, was to enable cache reserve on cloudflare, or potentially having the images on cloudflare r2 (cloudflare images aren't an option, no native way to integrate easily with my content management system).
So, my questions are:
- Will enabling cache reserve, and having the images on r2 result in a similar setup to amazon s3+cloudfront?
- Will enabling cache reserve, and NOT having the images (therefore keeping them on my server), make them served through the cdn (so, multiple locations).
- will cache reserve improve the performance of my website? (NextJS, primarily server-side rendered website).
- are there any other steps I could take to improve the performance of my website? (excluding optimizing on my frontend-code side, will do that anyway)
- Will Polish and Mirage help with anything?
My current setup is: A VPS located in Germany (hosting is hetzner), which hosts a nextjs app, and a directus cms, both proxied through cloudflare
The images are stored on my drive (that's how directus does it), and are served through a url, that is proxied through cloudflare. The images are transformed using the cms api.
What I wanted to do was have these images be served from different locations, to improve the speed.
I was thinking of either having the images on Amazon S3 instead, and serving them with cloudfront. Another idea I had, was to enable cache reserve on cloudflare, or potentially having the images on cloudflare r2 (cloudflare images aren't an option, no native way to integrate easily with my content management system).
So, my questions are:
- Will enabling cache reserve, and having the images on r2 result in a similar setup to amazon s3+cloudfront?
- Will enabling cache reserve, and NOT having the images (therefore keeping them on my server), make them served through the cdn (so, multiple locations).
- will cache reserve improve the performance of my website? (NextJS, primarily server-side rendered website).
- are there any other steps I could take to improve the performance of my website? (excluding optimizing on my frontend-code side, will do that anyway)
- Will Polish and Mirage help with anything?
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