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Francesco Boffa
CTO at ORDR · | 14 upvotes · 47.9K views
I don't think I have registered a domain in the last 10 years that hasn't been linked to CloudFlare within the first 2 hours from registration.
The benefits you get from even the free version of CloudFlare are amazing. From day 0: - 30/80% of bandwidth savings thanks to their CDN - Origin IP address protection - Managed SSL
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- Free ssl277
- Easy setup199
- Security190
- Ssl180
- Great cdn98
- Optimizer77
- Simple71
- Great UI44
- Great js cdn28
- Apps12
- HTTP/2 Support12
- DNS Analytics12
- AutoMinify12
- Rocket Loader9
- Ipv69
- Easy9
- IPv6 "One Click"8
- Fantastic CDN service8
- DNSSEC7
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- Free GeoIP7
- Amazing performance7
- API7
- Cheapest SSL7
- SPDY6
- Free and reliable, Faster then anyone else6
- Ubuntu5
- Asynchronous resource loading5
- Global Load Balancing4
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- Web31
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- Real-time updates28
- Fastest CDN26
- Powerful API22
- Great support20
- Great customer support14
- Instant Purging7
- Custom VCL7
- Good pricing6
- Tag-based Purging6
- HTTP/2 Support5
- Speed & functionality4
- Image processing on demande (Fastly IO)4
- Best CDN4
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- No support for SSHFP records2
- Expensive when you exceed their fair usage limits2
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- Minimum $50/mo spend1
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What is CloudFlare?
Cloudflare speeds up and protects millions of websites, APIs, SaaS services, and other properties connected to the Internet.
What is EdgeCast?
EdgeCast is a content delivery network (CDN) that helps companies accelerate and deliver static and dynamic content to end users around the world. Major customers include Yahoo!, Tumblr, Pinterest, Wordpress, and Imgur. The company has about 4,500 customers (as of June 2012) and carries about 5% of the world’s internet traffic.
What is Fastly?
Fastly's real-time content delivery network gives you total control over your content, unprecedented access to performance analytics, and the ability to instantly update content in 150 milliseconds.
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What are some alternatives to CloudFlare, EdgeCast, and Fastly?
Akamai
If you've ever shopped online, downloaded music, watched a web video or connected to work remotely, you've probably used Akamai's cloud platform. Akamai helps businesses connect the hyperconnected, empowering them to transform and reinvent their business online. We remove the complexities of technology, so you can focus on driving your business faster forward.
MaxCDN
The MaxCDN Content Delivery Network efficiently delivers your site’s static file through hundreds of servers instead of slogging through a single host. This "smart route" technology distributes your content to your visitors via the city closest to them.
Incapsula
Through an application-aware, global content delivery network (CDN), Incapsula provides any website and web application with best-of-breed security, DDoS protection, load balancing and failover solutions.
Netlify
Netlify is smart enough to process your site and make sure all assets gets optimized and served with perfect caching-headers from a cookie-less domain. We make sure your HTML is served straight from our CDN edge nodes without any round-trip to our backend servers and are the only ones to give you instant cache invalidation when you push a new deploy. Netlify is also the only static hosting service with integrated continuous deployment.
Cloudflare CDN
A CDN is a distributed network of servers that provides several advantages for a web site: Cached content: By caching web site content, It helps improve page load speeds, reduce bandwidth usage, and reduce CPU usage on the server.