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>CloudFlare Pages and GitHub Pages are bringing in a new era of fast, static websites.

Static site hosting with a brand name smashed onto it is a new era? GitHub itself btw is broken on palemoon for one thing. Not here to defend palemoon but it does show one thing: GitHub's frontend is over-engineered.

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If you think this is simply "hosting" then you're out of touch with why it's interesting. Instead of being served from a central server ala a VPS or colocated box, or even a central server augmented with a CDN, it is instead served from a ton of geographically-local servers. Oh yeah, and it starts at free, with unlimited bandwidth. This is without getting into Workers et al.

Not a GitHub Pages user, also not a Palemoon user, so couldn't say, but Palemoon is niche. There's not even an official macOS version.

>it is instead served from a ton of geographically-local servers.

All owned by the same company. I'd agree about it being revolutionary if it was on some distributed p2p network like freenet, torrent, ipfs etc. But to call some company doing things in a slightly different manner a new era? Come on

I said "interesting", not "revolutionary", to my knowledge anyway. If I did say "revolutionary", even I don't agree with me.

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