Is it true that sites routed via Cloudflare are blocked in certain countries like China? Would this work better?
Google Cloud Armor
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Re: Google Cloud Armor
#32Is it true that sites routed via Cloudflare are blocked in certain countries like China? Would this work better?
Just to clarify - Cloudflare have POPs behind the great firewall of china in cooperation with Baidu. That is not to say Cloudflare routed sites are all accessible through CF, but it's certainly not a blanket statement either way.
Not sure if this would work better.
Re: Google Cloud Armor
#33Is it true that sites routed via Cloudflare are blocked in certain countries like China? Would this work better?
Just to clarify - Cloudflare have POPs behind the great firewall of china in cooperation with Baidu. That is not to say Cloudflare routed sites are all accessible through CF, but it's certainly not a blanket statement either way. Not sure if this would work better.
Ah, thank you.
Re: Google Cloud Armor
#34How does it compare to its Azure counterpart? ( https://azure.microsoft.com/en-in/services/ddos-protection/ )
Azure differentiates itself here by aligning their interests with the customers’ interests. They’re not first do that either. For example, another major hosting provider, OVH, bundles DDoS protection in their basic service.
Google’s model de facto means they’re just running another protection racket, that is they make more money the more DDoS attacks there are.
From Azure’s website:
> Protection against unplanned costs
> Our cost protection provides service credits for resource costs which are incurred as a result of a documented DDoS attack.
Re: Google Cloud Armor
#35This would be a lot easier to use if Google added auto-https to their http load balancers. They already offer it for AppEngine custom domains.
If you're using GKE there's https://github.com/jetstack/cert-manager/
Re: Google Cloud Armor
#36Is it true that sites routed via Cloudflare are blocked in certain countries like China? Would this work better?
Just to clarify - Cloudflare have POPs behind the great firewall of china in cooperation with Baidu. That is not to say Cloudflare routed sites are all accessible through CF, but it's certainly not a blanket statement either way. Not sure if this would work better.
Yes but you need a "license" given by Chinese Gov. Otherwise your website will still be routed to edges outside of China.
And the bigger problem is the CloudFlare DNS, it is not working well in China.
Re: Google Cloud Armor
#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
Gotta add load balancing charges to this as well, but still ends up cheaper than CF in some cases.
No caching provided either. Full on egress charges. Surely that makes the comparison apples/oranges.
Caching is provided with GCP HTTPS load balancers, it’s just not specified here.
Re: Google Cloud Armor
#38Nice. Cloudflare has had no competition for too long.
No competition? There are many CDN and DDOS protection services. Cloudflare's own copy claims they have 35% of the market which indicates there is certainly competition out there.
Have you actually used them? I only have sample of n=3, but CloudFlare does some things much better than others.
Re: Google Cloud Armor
#39Honestly thought this was an early April fool's joke base on the headline alone.
Re: Google Cloud Armor
#40This is great news. Cloudflare is way too expensive. Pricing seems reasonable Policy Charge $5 per Cloud Armor policy per month Per Rule Charge $1 per rule per policy per month Incoming Requests Charge $0.75 per million HTTP(S) requests
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