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Akamai has had and continues to have more capacity than Cloudflare.
by pyvpx 9y ago
Akamai has had and continues to have more capacity than Cloudflare.
- jwineman 9y agoSource?
- gtaylor 9y agoThat doesn't matter at all. They've still got tons of capacity. > You don't solve a DDoS problem by having less capacity than your attacker and most individual companies can never afford the amount of bandwidth that is at Cloudflare's disposal. You can have less capacity than Akamai (many excellent providers have less) and still serve this purpose.
- pieter1976 9y agoFor CDN, yes. For DDoS mitigation, no. Before they removed the figure from their website they claimed about 1/5th the DDoS mitigation capacity as Cloudflare.
- jankedeen 9y agoDon't know that they have more but most colos I've used are using akamai.
- snowwrestler 9y agoOk but they: 1) are way more expensive than Cloudflare 2) suck at DDOS mitigation (there's a lot more to it than just bandwidth) 3) don't care much about DDOS mitigation (it is a side business from their actual business, which is edge caching) 4) drop customers who actually get hit with big DDOS attacks (see #3 above--they will always prioritize caching customers over DDOS customers) EDIT- oh and I forgot to say that if your site is HTTPS, you will have to give Akamai your keys, just like you do with Cloudflare.
- eeeeeeeeeeeee 9y agoThey do, but they are considerably more expensive to the point they aren't even competing with Cloudflare.