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
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#42I'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)?
Re: Ask HN: Are there good Cloudflare alternatives? e.g., edge cache, firewall
#43Paying a few thousand bucks annually is not enough to get no-bs customer support :)
Big tech lowered the bar so much that y'all just have Stockholm syndrome...
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#44I'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
#45have 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.
Re: Ask HN: Are there good Cloudflare alternatives? e.g., edge cache, firewall
#46Earlier 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!