I can't wait for the day clownfare suddenly put a price on this stuff they've been giving everyone for free. I find it hilarious people who get 200 hits a day on their blog think they need it.

That's right but I'm not making an argument of necessity.

I'm saying it's better for both you and your users to keep network traffic at a proper CDN than a home ISP network. It'll be faster for everyone.

This is the second time today I've read a HN comment saying that HTTPS and caching are incompatible.

Can you explain what you mean by this? I don't understand what you're saying (it seems obviously incorrect?)

visit any page which should be cached. click any link. unplug. click back. dead end instead of cached page.

cache only works on https for extra assets. which is useless if you have a simple static site anyway

I just tested it. Can't replicate.

Went to https://example.com, checked that it's cached in the inspector, clicked on the More information link which leads to https://www.iana.org/domains/example, unplugged my connection (went offline), clicked back. It showed the cached https://example.com. I clicked forward. It showed the cached https://www.iana.org/domains/example page. Clicked back/forward like a maniac, the pages switched seamlessly.

Repeated the same process on a non-cacheable page, it showed a dud when disconnected as expected.

Tested on Firefox and Chromium.

What? No it isn’t.