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Good exercise, but I doubt this will be cheaper than a commercial offering like Cloudflare, for example.

The skills you pick up from even attempting these things are probably the biggest reason for doing it. And bragging rights maybe?

Sure, but some things are done just for fun, others to prove it can be done. It's not all about the $

Also, TFA is talking this vs. CloudFront which is $$$