Sometimes, I receive questions which leave both me, and the person asking, bamboozled.

> Your website loads so quickly! What CDN do you use?

There is no CDN. It is just really small and simple, mostly text.

> Sure, but is that Cloudflare, or...?

None. It is a tiny website, just a few kilobytes per page, on a tiny server, at my home, connected to the Internet via my ISP, Andrews & Arnold.

> But are you / they in the cloud?

No. The webserver is in Newbury, in my garage.

> Neil, please can you pass my questions to your technical person? I don't think you understand, your website cannot be in your home. It must be in the cloud or have a CDN.

*Neil puts on glasses and false nose and moustache*

PSA: If you are on the Heroku Common runtime then it is 100% worth your time testing and verifying Router 2 isn't going to impact performance, especially if you use puma. Router 1 is EOL and Heroku plan to start force-migrating standard/performance tier apps in a couple weeks and there is still technically a bug in Puma relating to the keep-alive setting!

See https://www.heroku.com/blog/pumas-routers-keepalives-ohmy/ for the bug and https://help.heroku.com/JJ3M1TOM/common-runtime-legacy-router-end-of-life-faq for the current published EOL timeline.

If you're on Heroku and haven't yet upgraded to Router 2.0, they will begin migrating Standard and Performance tier apps in two weeks' time on 16 July (we found all our smaller, staging apps had already been migrated).

If you're using Puma, take note of https://www.heroku.com/blog/pumas-routers-keepalives-ohmy/ and set `enable_keep_alives false` in your `config/puma.rb` (see https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/deploying-rails-applications-with-the-puma-web-server#keepalive).

Forget all the bad news; THIS is happening! Joy!

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