The benefit is speed and consistency worldwide: a visitor in Mumbai and one in New York both get a response from a nearby server rather than waiting for a round trip to a distant origin. For global audiences, this noticeably improves performance.
Modern platforms increasingly offer edge functions that run parts of your app close to users. It's not necessary for every site, but for latency-sensitive or globally distributed audiences, edge hosting is a meaningful speed advantage.
Updated July 2026
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