CloudFront vs. Cloudflare, and how to reduce response times for both (2021)

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Post by akshaykumar90 » Thu, Oct 20, 2022, 2:45 PM UTC

CloudFront vs. Cloudflare, and how to reduce response times for both (2021)
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Post by cagenut » Thu, Oct 20, 2022, 5:05 PM UTC

now do fastly

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Post by bushbaba » Thu, Oct 20, 2022, 5:09 PM UTC

Now that CloudFront has greatly improved its performance, what's the pitch for using CloudFlare over it?

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Post by ceejayoz » Thu, Oct 20, 2022, 5:21 PM UTC

bushbaba wrote: post #3

Now that CloudFront has greatly improved its performance, what's the pitch for using CloudFlare over it?

Cloudflare's significantly cheaper in many cases.

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Post by nixcraft » Thu, Oct 20, 2022, 5:28 PM UTC

bushbaba wrote: post #3

Now that CloudFront has greatly improved its performance, what's the pitch for using CloudFlare over it?

Price is the main difference between AWS CloudFront/Fastly and CF. In most cases, CF prices are fixed, like $200 for business or $20 for the pro plan. If you like fixed prices VMs from Linode or DO, chances are high that you will like Cloudflare too. Of course, advanced addons features like CF Argo and CF Bot management cost more money at Cloudflare too.

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Post by k__ » Thu, Oct 20, 2022, 5:28 PM UTC

bushbaba wrote: post #3

Now that CloudFront has greatly improved its performance, what's the pitch for using CloudFlare over it?

They don't shut you off if you're alt right, lol.

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Post by babelfish » Thu, Oct 20, 2022, 5:30 PM UTC

k__ wrote: post #6

bushbaba wrote: post #3

Now that CloudFront has greatly improved its performance, what's the pitch for using CloudFlare over it?

They don't shut you off if you're alt right, lol.

But they should.

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Post by eastdakota » Thu, Oct 20, 2022, 5:36 PM UTC

k__ wrote: post #6

bushbaba wrote: post #3

Now that CloudFront has greatly improved its performance, what's the pitch for using CloudFlare over it?

They don't shut you off if you're alt right, lol.

Wanna bet?

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/amphtml/johnpaczkowski/amazon-p...

https://amp.theguardian.com/media/2010/dec/01/wikileaks-webs...

Etc etc…

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Post by stevewatson301 » Thu, Oct 20, 2022, 5:37 PM UTC

bushbaba wrote: post #3

Now that CloudFront has greatly improved its performance, what's the pitch for using CloudFlare over it?

Origin shield is quite pricey; Argo tiered caching is free.

(The article discusses Argo smart routing, but in my experience Argo tiered caching has lead to the same kind of performance gains this article talks about).

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Post by stevewatson301 » Thu, Oct 20, 2022, 5:41 PM UTC

eastdakota wrote: post #8

k__ wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They don't shut you off if you're alt right, lol.

Wanna bet? https://www.buzzfeednews.com/amphtml/johnpaczkowski/amazon-p... https://amp.theguardian.com/media/2010/dec/01/wikileaks-webs... Etc etc…

Except for the fact that hosting Wikileaks and Parler with the content in question was always legally contentious.

What Kiwifarms or The Daily Stormer hosted was sufficiently odious (in my view at least), it is disingenuous to suggest that the content is at the same level as what Amazon took action against.