This might make sense, if all of your users are located near your web servers and you can comfortably handle the load of all the requests hitting your web servers.<p>If the user making the request is in Australia, for example, and your web server is in the US, the user is going to be able to complete many round trip requests to the local CDN pop in Australia in the time it takes to make a single request to your server in the US.<p>Latency is one of the main reasons TO use a CDN. A CDN&#x27;s entire business model depends on making sure they have reliable and low latency connections to end users. They peer with multiple providers in multiple regions, to make sure links aren&#x27;t congested and requests are routed efficiently.<p>Unless you are going to run datacenters all around the world, you aren&#x27;t going to beat a CDN in latency.