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Hi bmelton, Looks like you were active around the TC Disrupt time, which was very busy for us (we've added two datacenters since then). We generally make websi

Hi bmelton, Looks like you were active around the TC Disrupt time, which was very busy for us (we've added two datacenters since then). We generally make websites about 30% faster on average.

jrosoff 16y ago
Curious how you measure the improvement you make to your customer sites. Can you explain the methodology?
nphase 16y ago
You know that you can reply directly to his comment, right?
bmelton 16y ago
That's exactly right, I was indeed. I did give it a couple of weeks, but I had a knee-jerk reaction at a point when I was dealing with a customer onsite. The gig was to migrate some of his company's products to the web, and of course, his main concern was on the speed -- he didn't believe the web could be as fast as a native client. While there's merit to that on its own, my attempts to show otherwise were thwarted by a really slow CloudFlare CDN, at the time, so I kiboshed it. I blogged about it at the time, and hoped that it was just due to what I'm sure was unexpected expansion in the light of the Disrupt coverage, but truthfully, I don't currently have any products large enough to benefit from it. It seemed like a cool service, and having recently gone the other way (implemented Amazon's CloudFront / caching / yadda yadda), I will attest that CloudFlare's implementation was far easier and more convenient. I'll try to check you guys out again soon. Thanks for the comment!