Cloudflare Traffic Manager
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Cloudflare Traffic Manager
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Re: Cloudflare Traffic Manager
#2This has been offered by their competitor Incapsula for some time under the name 'Global Server Load Balancing'
Re: Cloudflare Traffic Manager
#3Since cloudflare staff is always in this forum:
This means like you can add several server ips and you get a load balancer? And how many servers? And round-robin or something more smart? In what plans will this be available and if at extra cost ?
Is there any alternative to this ? This may be the perfect thing for dedicated providers that don't offer a loadbalancer.
Re: Cloudflare Traffic Manager
#4Since cloudflare staff is always in this forum: This means like you can add several server ips and you get a load balancer? And how many servers? And round-robin or something more smart? In what plans will this be available and if at extra cost ? Is there any alternative to this ? This may be the perfect thing for dedicated providers that don't offer a loadbalancer.
This allows you to create groups of servers (multiple servers per group) and do load balancing across servers inside a group, failover between servers, failover between groups (based on some threshold number of servers inside a group having failed), geo-steering so that visitors from different parts of the world hit different groups.
Today's announcement is currently only weighted round-robin within a group, but additional algorithms will be supported.
Re: Cloudflare Traffic Manager
#5Since cloudflare staff is always in this forum: This means like you can add several server ips and you get a load balancer? And how many servers? And round-robin or something more smart? In what plans will this be available and if at extra cost ? Is there any alternative to this ? This may be the perfect thing for dedicated providers that don't offer a loadbalancer.
This allows you to create groups of servers (multiple servers per group) and do load balancing across servers inside a group, failover between servers, failover between groups (based on some threshold number of servers inside a group having failed), geo-steering so that visitors from different parts of the world hit different groups. Today's announcement is currently only weighted round-robin within a group, but addi…
What about the cost ? Your competitor on another comment has a "contact us" price.
Re: Cloudflare Traffic Manager
#6This has been offered by their competitor Incapsula for some time under the name 'Global Server Load Balancing' https://www.incapsula.com/load-balancing-failover.html
And AWS Route 53: https://aws.amazon.com/route53/
Or Microsoft Traffic Manager: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/traffic-manager/
And possibly many, many other providers.
It would be interesting to know if there's some innovation here.
Re: Cloudflare Traffic Manager
#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
This allows you to create groups of servers (multiple servers per group) and do load balancing across servers inside a group, failover between servers, failover between groups (based on some threshold number of servers inside a group having failed), geo-steering so that visitors from different parts of the world hit different groups. Today's announcement is currently only weighted round-robin within a group, but addi…
What about the cost ? Your competitor on another comment has a "contact us" price.
In Early Access this is completely free. Pricing will be announced later.
Re: Cloudflare Traffic Manager
#8This has been offered by their competitor Incapsula for some time under the name 'Global Server Load Balancing' https://www.incapsula.com/load-balancing-failover.html
And AWS Route 53: https://aws.amazon.com/route53/ Or Microsoft Traffic Manager: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/traffic-manager/ And possibly many, many other providers. It would be interesting to know if there's some innovation here.
Because Cloudflare uses Anycast there is no change in the public IP address for a request that hits us. It will be routed to the nearest data center (of which we now have 100 cities covered globally). The Traffic Manager product controls how that traffic is the routed to the origin server (if the request could not be served from cache).
As the active monitoring is performed from each location separately the Traffic Manager applies its policies in each location and can automatically route around connectivity problems in the Internet as well as origin server problems. All without changing public DNS.
This allows us to do very fast failover and route changes because this is independent of the propagation time for DNS on the public Internet. Solutions based on changing DNS records are suboptimal.
Re: Cloudflare Traffic Manager
#9I can't knock them for constantly adding features.
I know people don't like the psuedo-centralization and the hand wavy action that their waf does...
yet they keep creating a strong value proposition that makes it so easy for small-medium projects to get so many services for free (DNS, SSL, CDN) or relatively cheap compared to competition (DDOS Mitigation).
I don't know of any other single service that does this at their price points, is there one? (maybe aws with their offerings of waf, cloudfront, route 53 etc).
Re: Cloudflare Traffic Manager
#10This has been offered by their competitor Incapsula for some time under the name 'Global Server Load Balancing' https://www.incapsula.com/load-balancing-failover.html
And AWS Route 53: https://aws.amazon.com/route53/ Or Microsoft Traffic Manager: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/traffic-manager/ And possibly many, many other providers. It would be interesting to know if there's some innovation here.
Neither of those services are http(s) load balancers and are merely (specialised) DNS managers.