Do i need CDN (Cloudflare)?

[hifivebaby]

If my host company has a server in my country and 95% of my visitors are from my country, do I still need Cloudflare?

 

[tiiberius]

I use CloudFlare for protection mostly. I can help with DDOS and other cyber threads.

It can also serve your cached pages when actual server is down = not lose sales.

Location of the visitors if of no importance for me.

 

[Gogol]

If my host company has a server in my country and 95% of my visitors are from my country, do I still need Cloudflare?

If you have proper caching policy on the static assets you serve, you probably don’t..

I also don’t use cloudflare for caching specifically. I use cf for ddos protection mainly. I personally use bunny specifically for serving static assets, but for your case that is not necessary.

 

[hifivebaby]

I also don’t use cloudflare for caching specifically. I use cf for ddos protection mainly.

Can you turn off the caching and use ddos protection only?
Is ddos protection needed for VPS or dedicated server only?

 

[Gogol]

Can you turn off the caching and use ddos protection only?
Is ddos protection needed for VPS or dedicated server only?

vps/dedicated - both can be attacked.

As for not using cf for caching, sending the Cache-Control header should help.

Read more:
https://developers.cloudflare.com/cache/concepts/cache-control/

 

[pierto]

Cloudflare making using caching, ssl and ddos protection easy. You can also lock down part of your site (ie. admin, etc) to specific IPs before it getting to your server (offloading some security overhead). Also depending on your content (image heavy, etc) caching externally could help. Test, test, test.