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Ask HN: What Are the Alternatives to Cloudflare?

What do you suggest as an alternative to CloudFlare? I just want something simple I can point my domain name at and it will speed up my WordPress website by caching assets.

cuu508 3y ago
No specific suggestion, but a useful keyword for searching would be "CDN".
viraptor 3y ago
Fastly, bunnycdn (if you're ok with just CDN), basedflare, quic.cloud, ... Search for CDN or for "CloudFlare alternatives". There's a few more available on the https://lowendtalk.com/ https://lowendtalk.com/ forums.
- jadbox 3y ago
  Fastly is indeed fast. I did find the realized cost to be 10x more expensive that Cloudflare for my CDN/video/compute needs, and I found the Fastly sales team to be a tad aggressive. However the performance is usually better than alternatives, if I had the money.
  - haubry 3y ago
    Hi! Fastly employee here — we're working on improving our accessibility for individuals/ smaller workloads. Not sure your monthly bandwidth usage, but we do have a dev test account which can be used for up $50 free traffic (it's pretty generous, more than enough for a test site) and now includes two TLS certs: https://www.fastly.com/blog/your-most-requested-update-for-fastly-developer-accounts https://www.fastly.com/blog/your-most-requested-update-for-f... Also, I lead a program at Fastly called Fast Forward, which stewards our open internet efforts — if your work is related to FOSS we may be able to arrange free services or deep, deep discounts: https://www.fastly.com/fast-forward https://www.fastly.com/fast-forward :)
marcc 3y ago
The outages this week have been rough. But outages can and will happen in any provider. I think the better goal is to find a way to use upstream providers in a more resilient way. When they are down, can you have fallbacks to another provider, or will that be too much engineering effort? Don't look for a provider that will be up 100% of the time, but figure out how to make sure your service isn't down when Cloudflare is down.

What do you suggest as an alternative to CloudFlare? I just want something simple I can point my domain name at and it will speed up my WordPress website by caching assets.

cuu508 3y ago

No specific suggestion, but a useful keyword for searching would be "CDN".

viraptor 3y ago

Fastly, bunnycdn (if you're ok with just CDN), basedflare, quic.cloud, ... Search for CDN or for "CloudFlare alternatives". There's a few more available on the https://lowendtalk.com/ https://lowendtalk.com/ forums.

jadbox 3y ago
Fastly is indeed fast. I did find the realized cost to be 10x more expensive that Cloudflare for my CDN/video/compute needs, and I found the Fastly sales team to be a tad aggressive. However the performance is usually better than alternatives, if I had the money.
- haubry 3y ago
  Hi! Fastly employee here — we're working on improving our accessibility for individuals/ smaller workloads. Not sure your monthly bandwidth usage, but we do have a dev test account which can be used for up $50 free traffic (it's pretty generous, more than enough for a test site) and now includes two TLS certs: https://www.fastly.com/blog/your-most-requested-update-for-fastly-developer-accounts https://www.fastly.com/blog/your-most-requested-update-for-f... Also, I lead a program at Fastly called Fast Forward, which stewards our open internet efforts — if your work is related to FOSS we may be able to arrange free services or deep, deep discounts: https://www.fastly.com/fast-forward https://www.fastly.com/fast-forward :)

marcc 3y ago

The outages this week have been rough. But outages can and will happen in any provider. I think the better goal is to find a way to use upstream providers in a more resilient way. When they are down, can you have fallbacks to another provider, or will that be too much engineering effort? Don't look for a provider that will be up 100% of the time, but figure out how to make sure your service isn't down when Cloudflare is down.