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akamai has had Netstorage ~forever so I wish I understood why this cloudflare product is such big news. AWS is just so much more
by liveoneggs 5y ago
akamai has had Netstorage ~forever so I wish I understood why this cloudflare product is such big news. AWS is just so much more
- cryptonym 5y agoNot the first feature to fall in that category. I do not think it's that big for the industry overall. Cloudflare is better at PR / more visible than Akamai. It might be interesting for markets where Akamai is not really competing (low budget?). S3 compatible API also is a plus.
- liveoneggs 5y agoyeah I also seem to remember being able to deploy a JAR file directly to akamai in the early 2000's as well, although we never tried it for production
- pqdbr 5y agoI could answer your question a thousand different ways but, to be concise, go to akamai.com and find me the pricing of any service they sell.
- opinion-is-bad 5y agoPretty nice for Cloudflare that their closest competitor makes very little effort to gain customers, and actively avoids the hobbyist set which is key for mindshare.
- notyourday 5y agoAkamai netstorage was/is expensive, requires a contract and interacting with inept, overpaid and rather useless sales people and sales engineering that insist on coming to your office to yap about their awesomeness a-la IBM, and is a part of CDN which is also expensive and also requires a contract with more sales people and sales engineers that insist on coming to your offices to yap about their awesomeness. I cannot wait until someone finally puts Akamai out of its misery -- they stopped being an innovative company in 2000s.