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Doesn't get faster than cloudflare https://www.dnsperf.com/

Except Cloudflare is irrelevant for people running their own little sites on VPSes, and can make it worse, as the article demonstrates.

Any idea why DigitalOcean is so good?

It uses Cloudflare.

DigitalOcean has issues similar to Cloudflare. Read the end section of https://freesoftware.life/how-using-cloudflare-free-plan-des...