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Show HN: Kloudsec, Our Bootstrapped Anycast CDN with LetsEncrypt for Your Site

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Re: Show HN: Kloudsec, Our Bootstrapped Anycast CDN with LetsEncrypt for Your Site

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Post by nubela »

Hi everyone, I'm Steven from Kloudsec and we are a 100% bootstrapped startup from Singapore. We built Kloudsec because we wanted to help non-technical website owners find/fix problems.

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Kloudsec boasts a

* A true Anycast CDN network with 3 edge locations (London, Singapore and San Jose, US)

* A LetsEncrypt plugin to automatically add an SSL cert to any domain you have (Just enable the plugin, no programming or webserver tweaking needed)

* Offline protection (No error pages when your site is down, still show static contents)

* Experimental WAF (This is hard to get right, we're working really hard on it)

The CDN and LetsEncrypt is 100% free. The premium security plugins are free for now but will be priced later.

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[Who should use Kloudsec now?]

As we are in beta now, I encourage you start with casual sites that you don't mind trying with a free CDN and SSL certs for HTTPS.

Happy to take on any questions you have :)

Re: Show HN: Kloudsec, Our Bootstrapped Anycast CDN with LetsEncrypt for Your Site

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Post by thawkins »

Could not get any sensible information about how this works, the dash board preview is almost meaningless marketing gunk, which told me nothing about my site.

I got the impression that it would not cope with anything beyond a simple static site.

Re: Show HN: Kloudsec, Our Bootstrapped Anycast CDN with LetsEncrypt for Your Site

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Post by nubela »

thawkins wrote: post #5

Could not get any sensible information about how this works, the dash board preview is almost meaningless marketing gunk, which told me nothing about my site. I got the impression that it would not cope with anything beyond a simple static site.

I'm sorry that our landing page couldn't be better at explaining it. I hope to fix this in the next few iterations.

On the tech, we're a reverse caching proxy service that builds value-add functionalities on the proxy layer.

For example, we can provision LetsEncrypt SSL certs for domains and put it on our edges automatically. All you have to do is to point your domain to our CDN `A` record.

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On the dashboard, we're trying to help dev-teams, CEOs, etc, to understand the performance of the site.

For example,

- Are there pages that used to be fast, but now regressed to be performing 5x slower?

- Are there pages that used to be functional (200 status code), but now return 500?

Think of it as Google Analytics but for website administration. But I agree that we can be better on the actual info being delivered. But this is our first public launch and it is from here on that I hope to hear from actual users what they want to see in the dashboard.

Re: Show HN: Kloudsec, Our Bootstrapped Anycast CDN with LetsEncrypt for Your Site

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Post by nubela »

chei0aiV wrote: post #7

I see your website doesn't work without JavaScript.

Haha, yeah it's a one-page app. And truthfully, we regret splitting up the front-end/backend-API in the day 0 of development. It slowed our dev pace down. Lesson for startups, start with a monolithic app, split it later.

Re: Show HN: Kloudsec, Our Bootstrapped Anycast CDN with LetsEncrypt for Your Site

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Post by grapehut »

Hey, wow. The site looks really good, so I connected a domain to try it.

Initial feedback: * I spent about 2-3 minutes to trying to find how to get to the main website settings. Only just before giving up I found the "..." which contained it. I think the "Manage your website settings" settings should be prominently displayed.

* All subdomains (and the domain itself) needs to point at the same ip address? This seems to be a pretty big limitation

* This is definitely the most confusing of the UI: https://i.gyazo.com/dc0f848525e98a08944f839aabbea44e.png I thought it was all a single form. I'd break it up a bit better, and when adding a subdomain explain the steps better (aliasing)

* While my ssl certificate is being provisioned, my site is serving a certificate from organkimlan.com I'm guessing that's another one of your customers?

* I love the idea of real time stats, and route-specific feedback (page load time , errors etc).

Some questions:

* What's your content policy in comparison to cloudflares? (That's probably the single biggest thing I like about them)

* Do you have any guides on how your site respects caching? I really love how cloudfront handles this (unlike cloudflare)

* Are you guys able to eat a DDoS? Is this one of the services you're providing?

Anyway, one of the most impressive Show HNs I've seen in a while. I wish you guys great success and will be following closely

Re: Show HN: Kloudsec, Our Bootstrapped Anycast CDN with LetsEncrypt for Your Site

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Post by nubela »

grapehut wrote: post #9

Hey, wow. The site looks really good, so I connected a domain to try it. Initial feedback: * I spent about 2-3 minutes to trying to find how to get to the main website settings. Only just before giving up I found the "..." which contained it. I think the "Manage your website settings" settings should be prominently displayed. * All subdomains (and the domain itself) needs to point at the same ip address? This seems t…

Thanks grapehut.

* No excuses, the website settings look like shit and will be fixed.

* You can add subdomains that point to the same site. (For example, www.example.com and example.com). If you have a different site, you can add a new one in the top right corner. (For example, 2 different websites of "test.com" and "dashboard.test.com")

* On the SSL cert issue, Sorry about this, this is a bug. Our engineers are looking into it. Do you have an email that I can contact you with? You can email us at hello@kloudsec.com and our engineers will immediately help you with this.

* We have no content policy as of now. (This is a schlep and we'll fix this. We'll send an email update once we have this)

* Caching is based on file hashing. Not filenames. You can also manually clear the CDN cache from the dashboard itself.

* DDoS defense. Erm well, we're just lacking 1 last step. Having enough traction/capital to buy lots of bandwidth from our DC to stomach it. We're on it.

Thanks for this feedback. This is insanely useful. We're very excited about this space.

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