Our CDN is global yes. Actually, when you deploy to netlify, we'll fingerprint all your assets (CSS, JS, images) and rewrite the URLs in your HTML so we can serve those straight out of Akamai's CDN with a 1 year max-age.
We run our own CDN for the actual HTML files, currently we have edge nodes in 7 datacenters around the work. This CDN is super optimized to this use case, which means you'll get a 90%+ cache hit rate on your HTML from our cache servers, while still getting instant cache invalidation whenever you push a new deploy.
This is also what allow us to do more complex things like proxying, OAuth1 request signing and pre-render support directly at the CDN level.
We currently beat all the services we run regular benchmarks again in our internal benchmarks for real user performance.
Very cool stuff - question - on the website you mention: "Those that need a CMS (major exception we know, but check in with us regularly - we are working on something huge), and those that need constant updating."
Can you give us any hint of what you're thinking about?
A bit too early to drop a lot of details in public, but feel free to write me (mathias@netlify.com) and I'll be happy to share more details.
We want to solve the issue of having non technical content editors when working with static site generators, without having to rely on an external content-store (ie. content should still just be flat text files in your repository).
Right now the workflow for developers is amazing with modern static site generators. We want to make sure it's great for content-editors as well.
We run our own CDN for the actual HTML files, currently we have edge nodes in 7 datacenters around the work. This CDN is super optimized to this use case, which means you'll get a 90%+ cache hit rate on your HTML from our cache servers, while still getting instant cache invalidation whenever you push a new deploy.
This is also what allow us to do more complex things like proxying, OAuth1 request signing and pre-render support directly at the CDN level.
We currently beat all the services we run regular benchmarks again in our internal benchmarks for real user performance.