> What problem would that solve? Using Cloudflare is very straightforward.
From the original question:
> I am curious what are the current best practices and offerings for hosting images (or short videos, gifs, etc.) for small to mid scale websites?
At that point your images are in the same place, and have the same workflows, as your entire site. If your blog / landing page is spread among different services, it'll take more time to maintain, more time to train a newcomer to understand, more points of failure...
IE, if you use one of the "git repo -> CDN" products, your images and static content are part of the same workflow, and the CDN handles all of your scalability issues. Your update process simply becomes a "one and done" pull request with 100% off-the-shelf automation.
> Using Cloudflare is very straightforward
Last weekend I hit a bug in Cloudcannon -> Cloudflare's certificate handling. Our landing page was down for about half a day. Fortunately it was Sunday night and most of our customers aren't the kind of people who'd be browsing our landing page on a Sunday. It was resolved quick enough, but it would have been a lot more frustrating if we were a consumer product or our blog was a lot more integral to our business.
I'm not entirely sure where to point the finger, though. We "bring our own cert" instead of using Cloudflare's (or Cloudcannon's) automatically-generated certificate.