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are you sure? everyone has customers in China.
I'm not sure you understand his comment.
then explain it. what point is in a cdn that will do nothing for your chinese customers? or it will still work but be slower?
Google CDN Beta is already one of the fastest CDNs
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#102"it's already one of the fastest" ... wouldn't we expect a new service, with lots of empty cache tables and available free ram, to be faster than the established players?
Empty cache tables means lower hits so slower.
I think the parent meant the cache tables of each node are empty (not many users yet), so the tested apps will be able to have relatively large cache tables on those nodes, since they aren't getting LRU'd out by other users.
So the cache table for a tested app is fuller because the cache table overall is emptier.
Re: Google CDN Beta is already one of the fastest CDNs
#103I wonder if they're using Brotli. http://9to5google.com/2016/01/20/chrome-brotli-compression-l...
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Well, there's spot instance pricing and reserved instances with AWS that nobody can touch. What "native load balancing" are you referring to that has no equivalent with AWS? There are many options for EBS - including magnetic storage. I doubt you can beat the speed of EBS with provisioned IO! Maybe you weren't using the right type for your need!
We have our own spare capacity product called preemptible VMs (cloud.google.com/preemptible-vms) with a similar discount and no need for bidding (Disclaimer: I worked on it). Also, we don't have reserved instances because our sustained use discounts, per-minute billing and continued year-on-year price drops make more sense than any of the RI combos (1 yr is worse than our pricing with sustained use, 3 years locks you…
Amazon just released two more EBS options today, which obviously cover more of the application spectrum: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-ebs-update-new-cold-...
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Honest question: Have you actually used GCE for any length of time? Having used both AWS and GCE, and I vastly prefer GCE. It is simply easier to use and offers better price/performance.
I have used both GCE and AWS. Current I have website that is hosted on GCE, but I am using Cloudways managed platform because I am not good with server configuration thing. GCE is definitely better in performance and cheaper in pricing than AWS. Their block storage is more than AWS and they have native load-balancing technology which AWS does not have have. The only downside I have felt with GCE is that they are pres…
price isn't true, the cheapest setup in AWS is cheaper than the cheapest setup in GCE.
If your on low margin you probably never go to GCE.
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The "deep understanding" is from a networking POV... They're not trying to do those niche features (yet?). They're just trying to improve site perf for anyone using HTTP LB's on GCP already. You check a single box and your content is magically served from (or terminated on) a crazy number of POPs with zero configuration.
What "deep understanding" when it works with VMs within GCE only?! This is a marketing description, not a technical one. The features I mentioned are not "niche", they are basic among CDNs and both Google and AWS seem to offer the worse and totally impractical CDNs. Honestly, if Google Cloud offers a CDN comparable with Fastly, I may consider a move, but for a CloudFront copycat (well, a copycat of Gen. 1) - thanks,…
CloudFront and what Google has shipped here are completely different things. I don't really understand your anger here TBH. Might be worth playing with GCP again if you haven't in a while. It's much better than AWS and Azure.
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I'm not sure you understand his comment.
then explain it. what point is in a cdn that will do nothing for your chinese customers? or it will still work but be slower?
What s/he's saying is that because GCP runs on a Google network, it's blocked by the GFWoC.
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#109If anyone wants to poke this, I've set up 2 micro instances in each GCP zone and put the GCDN in front here:
It's quite smart and pushes traffic to the right zone:
https://pulse.turbobytes.com/results/5716f2f3ecbe400cf7000ca...
Very cool stuff.
Re: Google CDN Beta is already one of the fastest CDNs
#110Google CDN looks very similar to what Cloudflare Free Plan offers. A no-Frills, fully automated setup with little or no control on how your content is being delivered. Main difference with Cloudflare being that Google forces you to use GCP as Origin and you have to pay for the CDN service (Bandwidth, purge, requests...) which Cloudflare offers for free and you can use any Origin server. Not sure why someone would use…
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