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CloudFlare's slowness is extremely surprising to me. From my house in Greece, I get a one millisecond ping to 1.1.1.1 (devices in my house have higher pings), so I was assuming that would carry over to their caches. Too bad about that, looks like I'm going to have to rethink my setup of having them cache my site on their edge.
Anecdotally I thought it seems snappier, so it’s cool to see that backed up.
I’m pretty amazed by what you get for free on GitHub Pages. I use the Eleventy static-site generator, and I’m using Actions to automatically rebuild my site every time I push. Works really slick.
CloudFlare's slowness is extremely surprising to me. From my house in Greece, I get a one millisecond ping to 1.1.1.1 (devices in my house have higher pings), so I was assuming that would carry over to their caches. Too bad about that, looks like I'm going to have to rethink my setup of having them cache my site on their edge.
That seems to imply that you are within about 100km of something on cloudflare's edge.
I'd be interested to see comparisons with the "S3-alike" services like Wasabi [1] and BackBlaze's B2 [2]. Their selling point is that they're a lot cheaper, so performance comparisons would be interesting. 1: https://wasabi.com 2: https://www.backblaze.com/b2/cloud-storage.html
Their pricing model is to be cheap by not apply egress bandwidth charges, on the understanding that this will be low compared to the storage used.
The pricing FAQ says "If your monthly downloads (egress) are greater than your active storage volume, then your storage use case is not a good fit for Wasabi’s free egress policy", and "If your storage use case exceeds the guidelines of our free egress policy on a regular basis, we reserve the right to limit or suspend your service" [1].
I'd like to see a comparison among Netlify, Vercel, and Render.com as they all offer free hosting for static sites with similar usability. It's a growing service category (free hosting for static sites deployed from GitHub). Are there others (besides GitHub Pages) I don't know about?
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That seems to imply that you are within about 100km of something on cloudflare's edge.
Yes, I have a suspicion they have an edge node in my city.
A comparison of the additional latency (due to slow webservers etc) seems like a more relevant thing to measure if we'recomparing the services themselves. Eg something like time to first byte MINUS network latency. Otherwise you already had your answer with the ping times..
A CDN is not the same as a hosting provider. Proximity to edge locations of the CDNs likely has something to do with latency delays. Also proximity of your hosting server location to Cloudflare's CDN. I ran a similar benchmark for time to first bite with a Heroku site behind CloudFlare and since the Heroku edges location varied wildly, latency varied wildly as well. CloudFront in front of an S3 bucket in the same loc…
Re: DDoS protection: AWS includes their standard anti-DDoS support for free with most AWS services exposed to public including Cloudfront. https://aws.amazon.com/shield/getting-started/
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No idea frate, though I use a wired desktop for the test, so wifi latency isn't a consideration.
I have 10 ms to 1.1.1.1 in RO/RDS on wired. I blame their idiotic pppoe.