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I’m a big fan of CloudFlare. I own a little stock, and I moved our company over to it after running on a competitor for about a year. CloudFlare has been much b
by lukevp 7y ago
I’m a big fan of CloudFlare. I own a little stock, and I moved our company over to it after running on a competitor for about a year. CloudFlare has been much better.
Whenever I use the front end, it just feels like it’s made by people who actually need to use this stuff, and it is so straightforward. The api is great too. When we were with the competition it was ridiculous how often we had to have an engineer assist us with setup because the front end didn’t support some feature we needed. With CF we signed up one day and have never had to have manual changes made by support, and the health checks, load balancing and failover have worked from day one. With the competitor the health check story did not live up to the reality and we had several outages related to the failover system not recovering properly.
When they publish these blog posts, it shows to me that they are willing to consider bold moves and that they aren’t afraid to be different. Also, that their architecture has been designed with this agility in mind.
I’ve visited their offices and while their corporate culture didn’t seem like the best fit for me, I liked the team and what they are doing.
- bmurphy1976 7y agoCome on, throw their competitor under the bus! I'm guessing it was Akamai. Every change we need to make to our Akamai distros is an up sell conversation with them. It's obnoxious. I much prefer Amazon CloudFront.
- lukevp 7y agoNot Akamai but similar experience here. I've heard good things about CloudFront, but I believe it's mostly on the CDN side? Does it do things like authenticated origin pulls (client cert from provider presented to your origin), automatic SSL certs, health checks w/ failover, DDoS and WAF protection and unlimited bandwidth? The WAF was one of the reasons we switched, our existing provider wanted to charge us 10x more just for the WAF than the entire Cloudflare plan is now.
- AznHisoka 7y agoFastly?
- sersi 7y agoI'm also rather interested to know if it is Fastly, I am considering switching away from them. The control fastly offer through the VCL is great but cloudflare workers look really great.
- jgrahamc 7y agoResources on how to switch from VCL to Cloudflare Workers: https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/archive/recipes/vcl-conversion/ https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/archive/recipes/vc...
- nolok 7y agoAkamai interface is like a jigsaw puzzle with several key pieces missing. Doesn't matter how much effort you put into it, how many times you did it before or how many documentation you read, part of it will still depend on evil incantation chanted to their support/billing people. At least it was about 5 years ago when I last used it, I ran from that as fast as I could.
- bmurphy1976 7y agoIt's still like that and everything you might want to do is disabled by default. You have to go through a sales/contract process to get each feature turned on inidividually. They should just set the price for each feature and charge us based on usage. We're actively migrating to CloudFront because we're sick of playing these games.
- endorphone 7y ago"it shows to me that they are willing to consider bold moves and that they aren’t afraid to be different" Because they benchmarked a drop-in-place commodity replacement as being a better performance-per-dollar for their operation? I'm not sure what's bold about that. I find the notion that they posted a blog entry about this pretty bizarre -- almost rinky-dink. It seems like it's pandering to the AMD fanbase (which I am right now, just as anyone who is paying attention is, but I can still recognize it) EDIT: Sorry, I didn't realize I stepped into a Cloudflare circlejerk. Apologies and carry on. So brave!
- sounds 7y agoThere's a ton, just a ton of intel-specific integrations and Cloudflare's switch to AMD was not just a "drop-in-place" move.
- endorphone 7y agoWhat "intel-specific integrations"? Cloudflare specifically talks about how they keep their stack runnable across a wide-range of platforms, including even entirely different instruction sets (e.g. ARM). Their own words support my statement. I'm pretty sure it was a "drop-in place" move, and they say absolutely nothing to the contrary. They benchmarked a system that performed better than their existing system for whatever criteria they targeted, and chose it. Story at 11. Saying they "abandoned" Intel is uproarious given that if Intel pushes out a new 128-core Xeon at a decent price, they'd as easily "abandon" AMD for Intel.
- jgrahamc 7y agoAs I say in another comment... AMD makes sense for us today because of the performance per watt. We continue to keep our software ARM-ready and look at ARM-based solutions. We also continue to look at Intel. We'll use what gives us the best requests per watt. But it is notable that these are our first servers wit NO Intel components at all.
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- wzy 7y agoIncapsula?
- khjkhj 7y agoI need to pay my student loans, so Imma ask: How much can I get for posts like this?
- endorphone 7y agoCloudflare's CTO posts on HN, so many here seem to feel like they need to defend and herald the company for absolutely banal activities, as if they're personal friends. Whatever.
- almost_usual 7y agoWhat? Cloudflare gets flamed for nearly everything on HN with bizarre conspiracy narratives. You’d think they were the NSA with the comments I’ve read.
- nullc 7y agoBoth views about HN comments can be true.
- almost_usual 7y agoyou had to create a throwaway account to post this?
- jgrahamc 7y agohttps://blog.cloudflare.com/no-payola-here/ https://blog.cloudflare.com/no-payola-here/
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