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At several times in this thread (including parent comment) you refer to your service as a "push CDN". You compare it to Fastly in one response. CDNs have many
by apeace 9y ago
At several times in this thread (including parent comment) you refer to your service as a "push CDN". You compare it to Fastly in one response.
CDNs have many well-connected points of presence around the globe. They often route traffic through their own global/regional dark fiber networks to decrease latency.
If a Fanout customer buys the self-hosted package, obviously this won't be the case. But is it the case for your cloud service? How many points of presence do you have? Do you have an expansive network that you control, or are you yourself using a cloud provider?
- jkarneges 9y agoWe're an early stage startup, so some of our claims are aspirational. We're definitely not on the same level as Fastly today. At present, we have one point of presence (California). We used to have another in Europe but we shut it down to save money. However we'll be reinstating it again next month. We're bootstrapped, so justifying the costs of expansion takes time. Long term we hope to have POPs everywhere. We use cloud providers for our servers. Most of our workload is on Digital Ocean. If you find the Fanout concept compelling, but have particular regional/latency requirements, it would be great to chat. Understanding demand may help us on the investment side, which may help us expand faster.