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Re: Ask HN: Are there good Cloudflare alternatives? e.g., edge cache, firewall

#41

I've been in the industry long enough that sometimes I wonder if we have all somehow collectively forgotten about nginx whenever this question comes up.

Indeed. Nowadays people want fancy UI and API, although the same can be achieved with much lesser overehead

I think a lot of it is the major influx of people that joined the industry in the mid-2010s that never had to write code before. They started on fancy UIs so that's what they know.

Re: Ask HN: Are there good Cloudflare alternatives? e.g., edge cache, firewall

#42

I'm launching a competitor for just these reasons ... https://skip2.net Hosted DNS (so you'd just have to change your nameservers,) CDN, WAF, and all the other goodies like compression/image transformation/SSL. I've got support on the list... What else do you want to see in a solution like this (anyone)?

Any plans for a terraform provider module? Can’t use to many services that don’t support automation.

Re: Ask HN: Are there good Cloudflare alternatives? e.g., edge cache, firewall

#43
post #8

Paying a few thousand bucks annually is not enough to get no-bs customer support :)

Entreprise is minimum 12k/yr but it's typically more than that. It absolutely should entitle you to no-bs customer support.

Big tech lowered the bar so much that y'all just have Stockholm syndrome...

Re: Ask HN: Are there good Cloudflare alternatives? e.g., edge cache, firewall

#44

I'm launching a competitor for just these reasons ... https://skip2.net Hosted DNS (so you'd just have to change your nameservers,) CDN, WAF, and all the other goodies like compression/image transformation/SSL. I've got support on the list... What else do you want to see in a solution like this (anyone)?

Any plans for a terraform provider module? Can’t use to many services that don’t support automation.

After we launch our public API, we'll tackle integrations like these, almost certainly starting with a Terraform provider since it's so popular. Thanks for the suggestion.

Re: Ask HN: Are there good Cloudflare alternatives? e.g., edge cache, firewall

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post #27

have you checked bunny.net? i deployed a cdn easily on their lovely ui, would love to hear other people's experiences on it though. bunny for example doesnt have s3 storage api yet.

Bunny has been delaying the s3 storage for over 2 years. I love them but that is one complaint I have. I'm not sure what they are waiting for. They even said they are working on it many moons back.

i wish they just used ceph underneath to make it easy.

Re: Ask HN: Are there good Cloudflare alternatives? e.g., edge cache, firewall

#46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Make it extremely easy, like with the addition of an API key, to swap over to your service during a failover/outage.

Love this. Thank you!

Btw if you are thinking of doing this, how I have done it with other vendors, is use Terraform to export their config, then convert the TF data to my intended system. Rather than writing code to import based on their API because the APIs change and the Terraform modules are updated pretty fast to export the required data with SaaS vendors
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