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I'm VP, Product Engineering at https://www.stackpath.com https://www.stackpath.com and we feel like our products compete nicely alongside Cloudflare in DNS, WAF

I'm VP, Product Engineering at https://www.stackpath.com https://www.stackpath.com and we feel like our products compete nicely alongside Cloudflare in DNS, WAF, CDN and Serverless (our EdgeEngine product uses v8 just like Cloudflare workers). Our Edge Containers product launch was also on HN last month: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19089614 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19089614

jabart 8y ago
Failover is a major difference I find between Cloudflare and Stackpath. Just a WAF with more options for failover or load balancing would put things on equal footing. This was based on my last trial back in November.
- dmytton 8y ago
  It'd be great to understand a bit more about how you'd like to see this working. The WAF product team report into me so I can get a discussion going with the right people if you'd like to email me: david.mytton@stackpath.com
kawsper 8y ago
Hi, I am a user of MaxCDN (which was bought by Stackpath) and on every page you write "Everything customers loved about MaxCDN has been integrated into the StackPath CDN Edge Service" which isn't true and just marketing speech. MaxCDN had an API called the "raw logs api" that let my service query yours to get an understanding of what requests you have served for us, but that feature is missing with Stackpath, the feature is described here: https://reseller-docs.maxcdn.com/#raw-logs-api https://reseller-docs.maxcdn.com/#raw-logs-api
- spben 8y ago
  Hi, This is super helpful, really appreciate it. I will say that this feature along with reporting delivery by file is among the top feature requests on the new SP// platform. We do have the ability to provide you with access logs, but it's not as convenient as the API above. We also have several users creating real-time CDN logs with our Serverless EdgeEngine so that's an option as well. Anyways, I've noted your request around the raw logs API going to the new platform and will be sure to stay on top of it. Feel free to email me anytime, always happy to help - ben.gabler (at) stackpath (dot) com
bbb91 8y ago
When it comes to bandwidth, you can't really compete with Cloudflare. Your $200/month plan gives us 10TB. I've served over 50TB on Cloudflare's $20/month plan, which probably makes me a "bad customer", but it's nice not having to worry about this when someone decides to use a direct link to a video or image I host.
- jjeaff 8y ago
  They don't allow video streaming on their regular plans. How are you able to serve up videos on the $20/month plan?
  - bbb91 8y ago
    Cloudflare works as a reverse proxy, it loads what's on your server. We can cache videos by using a page rule. I guess they only ask you to upgrade if you serve a huge amount of bandwidth.
porker 8y ago
I've talked with your sales teams a couple of times about tag-based purging, which is the one Varnish/Fastly feature I cannot live without. I understand it isn't implemented on one of them (MaxCDN IIRC) and StackPath does not provide pricing suited for smaller projects (where the traffic is GBs/month, but the speed gain from caching dynamic content is the reason for using a CDN).
- spben 8y ago
  I'd be more than happy to work with you on this. I run Product & Software here at SP// so I know the right people ;) feel free to email me ben.gabler (at) stackpath (dot) com

jabart 8y ago

Failover is a major difference I find between Cloudflare and Stackpath. Just a WAF with more options for failover or load balancing would put things on equal footing. This was based on my last trial back in November.

dmytton 8y ago
It'd be great to understand a bit more about how you'd like to see this working. The WAF product team report into me so I can get a discussion going with the right people if you'd like to email me: david.mytton@stackpath.com

kawsper 8y ago

Hi, I am a user of MaxCDN (which was bought by Stackpath) and on every page you write "Everything customers loved about MaxCDN has been integrated into the StackPath CDN Edge Service" which isn't true and just marketing speech. MaxCDN had an API called the "raw logs api" that let my service query yours to get an understanding of what requests you have served for us, but that feature is missing with Stackpath, the feature is described here: https://reseller-docs.maxcdn.com/#raw-logs-api https://reseller-docs.maxcdn.com/#raw-logs-api

spben 8y ago
Hi, This is super helpful, really appreciate it. I will say that this feature along with reporting delivery by file is among the top feature requests on the new SP// platform. We do have the ability to provide you with access logs, but it's not as convenient as the API above. We also have several users creating real-time CDN logs with our Serverless EdgeEngine so that's an option as well. Anyways, I've noted your request around the raw logs API going to the new platform and will be sure to stay on top of it. Feel free to email me anytime, always happy to help - ben.gabler (at) stackpath (dot) com

bbb91 8y ago

When it comes to bandwidth, you can't really compete with Cloudflare. Your $200/month plan gives us 10TB. I've served over 50TB on Cloudflare's $20/month plan, which probably makes me a "bad customer", but it's nice not having to worry about this when someone decides to use a direct link to a video or image I host.

jjeaff 8y ago
They don't allow video streaming on their regular plans. How are you able to serve up videos on the $20/month plan?
- bbb91 8y ago
  Cloudflare works as a reverse proxy, it loads what's on your server. We can cache videos by using a page rule. I guess they only ask you to upgrade if you serve a huge amount of bandwidth.

porker 8y ago

I've talked with your sales teams a couple of times about tag-based purging, which is the one Varnish/Fastly feature I cannot live without. I understand it isn't implemented on one of them (MaxCDN IIRC) and StackPath does not provide pricing suited for smaller projects (where the traffic is GBs/month, but the speed gain from caching dynamic content is the reason for using a CDN).

spben 8y ago
I'd be more than happy to work with you on this. I run Product & Software here at SP// so I know the right people ;) feel free to email me ben.gabler (at) stackpath (dot) com