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It's funny that this has just been announced, as I was doing an audit of our outgoing bandwidth costs and saw that our data being flagged as outgoing data in ou

It's funny that this has just been announced, as I was doing an audit of our outgoing bandwidth costs and saw that our data being flagged as outgoing data in our Azure Service Plans was much much lower compared to our other data center despite Azure having larger sites. The key difference was that Cloudflare had been implemented on our Azure webapps, but not on the other data center sites. I'm not sure if this has been happening for a while for Azure and is just being announced or if it's pure coincidence. Either way I am a happy user of both Azure and Cloudflare. Anecdotally though I have also noticed on Cloudflare as they have moved to more pricing models that uncached hits on free plans have increased while our higher plans have fallen/remained the same. That too could be coincidence or a need for rule changes. I also wonder how this will effect using CDNs from Azure Edge, Akamai, etc. Are those included in the bandwidth alliance?

khc 8y ago
Is that because you have tiered caching on for your paid plans?
- partiallypro 8y ago
  I'm not sure, it could just be a bad sample size on the free sites I have through Cloudflare. I will hopefully be reviewing those soon to see if it feels more widespread. It could just be a rule set incorrectly in the few I've glanced at. No doubt that though paid tiers can high caching hits, especially if you enable Argo.
  - khc 8y ago
    Argo by itself does not improve hit rate, but that's often coming with tiered caching. Source: I work on the cache team at cloudflare
    - partiallypro 8y ago
      Doesn't Argo come with tiered caching? At least according to your marketing materials it helps increase cache hit ratios. https://blog.cloudflare.com/argo/ https://blog.cloudflare.com/argo/ "Customers enabling Argo can expect to see a 60% reduction in their cache miss rate as compared to Cloudflare’s traditional CDN service."
      - khc 8y ago
        Typically yes. But you can have Argo without tiered caching and for Enterprise level also tiered caching without Argo

khc 8y ago

Is that because you have tiered caching on for your paid plans?

partiallypro 8y ago
I'm not sure, it could just be a bad sample size on the free sites I have through Cloudflare. I will hopefully be reviewing those soon to see if it feels more widespread. It could just be a rule set incorrectly in the few I've glanced at. No doubt that though paid tiers can high caching hits, especially if you enable Argo.
- khc 8y ago
  Argo by itself does not improve hit rate, but that's often coming with tiered caching. Source: I work on the cache team at cloudflare
  - partiallypro 8y ago
    Doesn't Argo come with tiered caching? At least according to your marketing materials it helps increase cache hit ratios. https://blog.cloudflare.com/argo/ https://blog.cloudflare.com/argo/ "Customers enabling Argo can expect to see a 60% reduction in their cache miss rate as compared to Cloudflare’s traditional CDN service."
    - khc 8y ago
      Typically yes. But you can have Argo without tiered caching and for Enterprise level also tiered caching without Argo