Heard: edge worker redirect vs a PHP box for your link layer

Heard: edge worker redirect vs a PHP box for your link layer
The redirect hop is where latency and footprint both live.
— A PHP/nginx box gives you full log access, easy postback handling, and no per-request bill — but it's one IP, one ASN, easy to fingerprint and blacklist as a unit.
— An edge worker (Cloudflare/Fastly type) redirects from anonymous shared IPs at sub-20ms globally — great for ban-resistance and speed, painful for deep logging and any stateful cloaking logic.
Our read: edge for the public redirect skin, your own box behind it for the brain. Running cloaking logic on the edge alone is how people leak their filter rules in worker error pages.
— confidence: medium