I mean other than making surfing the web slow as molasses.

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If you're only running a small website with little traffic, yeah absolutely.

But if your traffic grows, your costs increase rapidly to buy hardware to handle it, or you deal with website crashes.

It's also a lot harder to DDoS a website that uses a CDN than one that entirely self hosts.

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