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Come 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

by bmurphy1976 7y ago

Come 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 ago
Not 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 ago
  Fastly?
  - sersi 7y ago
    I'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 ago
      Resources 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 ago
Akamai 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 ago
  It'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.

lukevp 7y ago

Not 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 ago
Fastly?
- sersi 7y ago
  I'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 ago
    Resources 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 ago

Akamai 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 ago
It'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.