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Google CDN looks very similar to what Cloudflare Free Plan offers. A no-Frills, fully automated setup with little or no control on how your content is being del
by lolobkk 10y ago
Google CDN looks very similar to what Cloudflare Free Plan offers. A no-Frills, fully automated setup with little or no control on how your content is being delivered. Main difference with Cloudflare being that Google forces you to use GCP as Origin and you have to pay for the CDN service (Bandwidth, purge, requests...) which Cloudflare offers for free and you can use any Origin server.
Not sure why someone would use Google CDN when you can get the same for free with Cloudflare. Moreover, Cloudflare provides Security up to L7 with WAF whereas Google Cloud has no Security features. Anybody know how DDoS (L3/4) mitigation works on Google CDN?
Now if you want control and the ability to set up your own policies (Cache Control Headers, redirect, complex cache key manipulation, etc...), Google Cloud is not going to be what you need, at least for the time being and you would be better of with EdgeCast or Akamai. Faslty is an interesting option too but their network is very small compare to EdgeCast or Akamai. Fastly is about 1Tbps of capacity whereas Akamai or EdgeCast are > 20Tbps.
PS: Akamai is not IP Anycast based
- mgw 10y agoI don't know if Google does this, but because they control both endpoints (cache server and load balancer) of the longest section of the path they could accelerate it by replace HTTP(S) there with something like CloudFlare's Railgun. [1] Since Railgun is only available at CloudFlare plans starting at $200/month, this could make the Google offering attractive for certain customers. In any case, it is hard to beat free for most sites with moderate needs. [1] https://www.cloudflare.com/railgun/ https://www.cloudflare.com/railgun/
- jamescun 10y agoI just naturally assumed Akamai would use anycast for their CDN, but it is actually DNS based[1]. No mention of if their DNS is anycasted, one would presume so. [1] https://blogs.akamai.com/2013/04/serving-at-the-edge-good-for-performance-good-for-mitigating-ddos-part-ii.html https://blogs.akamai.com/2013/04/serving-at-the-edge-good-fo...
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