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Uh, what? Why should I, as a customer of a hosted, managed, SaaS product, need to ever care or think about the time of day as a factor for the performance of m
by lopkeny12ko 3y ago
Uh, what?
Why should I, as a customer of a hosted, managed, SaaS product, need to ever care or think about the time of day as a factor for the performance of my product? If Fastly, as a hosted SaaS, isn't managing its own capacity well enough to deliver consistent performance at all times, that's on them.
Additionally, provisioning hidden limits between different types of accounts, especially limits that affect performance for a CDN whose objective should be delivering consistent performance, is deceptive at best, and malicious and false advertising at worst.
- nostrebored 3y agoIf you think that any CDN doesn’t have performance variations, you’re going to be sorely mistaken. There’s a reason that many sites that require efficient content delivery have many different CDNs and optimize between them. Well, there are many reasons. But one of them is QoS.
- lostmsu 3y agoFastly could have picked a bad Cloudflare hour and do their own countertest.
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- lnxg33k1 3y agoFor a product named Compute@Kintergarten?
- operator-name 3y agoThe article outlines - Cloudflare doesn't strictly allow benchmarking - Thus fastly compared against Cloudflare's own metric and numbers
- SteveNuts 3y agoMy biggest issue with this is it comes across as desperate, defensive, and whiny. Fastly would do better to go on the offensive and prove their worth rather than complain about everything a competitor says.
- aeyes 3y agoThe only time I have seen someone use multiple CDNs was for live video content delivery. Can you name any other sites which have multiple CDNs? Excluding JS CDNS which people use for convenience..
- nostrebored 3y agoFair point -- almost all of the use cases I can think of revolve around delivery of streaming content. But I think they're also probably the users most likely to drive performance variations too
- aeyes 3y agoI think the opposite is true: Video content delivery is not very sensitive to latency and even live content has a little bit of buffering. The raw network throughput capability of the CDN in the region of the clients is more important.
- bastawhiz 3y ago> Why should I, as a customer of a hosted, managed, SaaS product, need to ever care or think about the time of day as a factor for the performance of my product? If someone ran a performance benchmark of your SaaS product many times over a few days until they got a result that looked bad in comparison to their own product, then proceeded to use that one sample in their post, you'd be pissed too. Performance isn't constant, and especially for a (presumably low-priority) free offering, it's beyond sketchy.
- cherrypickin 3y agoExactly. This is so obviously an issue I’m shocked anyone would disagree. The question is: how many times did Cloudflare test before finding the worst hour? I rather doubt they registered their trials! (But it could also be “just the one time” because they are that much better… who can say?)
- fsociety 3y agoMeasure over a long period of time and you can measure the variance of the performance. Which determines if you should care about the time of day.
- throwaway2990 3y agoLet’s say cloudflare tested at 1pm their time. And that happened to be 1am NZ time. And it made cloudflare look good but vastly look bad. But you run the same test at 1pm NZ time and fastly is faster cos cloudflare can’t handle the load. Obviously it does matter to you as a sad providers because time of day does matter for when the tests are conducted.