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Related to CloudFare, I know what a real CDN is, but I'm not sure what cloudfare does useful at all, ex: http://halfelf.org/2013/i-dont-understand-cloudflare h

Related to CloudFare, I know what a real CDN is, but I'm not sure what cloudfare does useful at all, ex: http://halfelf.org/2013/i-dont-understand-cloudflare http://halfelf.org/2013/i-dont-understand-cloudflare http://pergento.wordpress.com/2012/02/01/cloudflare-slowed-down-our-site/ http://pergento.wordpress.com/2012/02/01/cloudflare-slowed-d... http://amix.dk/blog/post/19627 http://amix.dk/blog/post/19627 Like they tell you to use CloudFare w/ a CDN. what? It appears that they are a good marketing company, and OK tech, but not clear to me what. Compare it to real CDN Fastly or MaxCDN. So other than marketing, what does Cloudfare do when you pay them?

celsoazevedo 12y ago
Cloudflare is a CDN with security options (they stop bots, spam, ddos, etc). In some cases websites load faster, in others load slower... you have to try and see. I'm using Cloudflare on 3 websites ($30/month) and on the last 30 days they saved 4.9 TB in bandwidth [1]. The "5TB" plan on MaxCDN costs $299/month. [1] http://i.imgur.com/xqQ3Aea.png http://i.imgur.com/xqQ3Aea.png