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> The S3 bucket sits behind CloudFlare to make downloading the binaries fast from anywhere. Why not CloudFront? Moving binaries through CF CDN might not do for
by prashnts 10y ago
> The S3 bucket sits behind CloudFlare to make downloading the binaries fast from anywhere.
Why not CloudFront? Moving binaries through CF CDN might not do for you. It's also seen that they don't really like you moving large data through their service [0].
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12825719 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12825719
- jlemoine 10y agoWe were using CloudFront at the beginning but we had a lot of performance problems to deploy our binaries worldwide (especially in Africa and Russia). We have seen a big performance improvement by switching to Cloudflare that have a POP in all region where we deploy binaries
- threeseed 10y agoCloudFlare has 105 PoPs. CloudFront has 45 PoPs. That's a big difference.