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Don't call Akamai. Never call Akamai. They are horrible. Try Incapsula, GigENet, Blacklotus, Cloudflare first.
by moe 12y ago
Don't call Akamai. Never call Akamai. They are horrible.
Try Incapsula, GigENet, Blacklotus, Cloudflare first.
- falconed 12y agoCan you elaborate on why you think Akamai is horrible?
- moe 12y agoI've dealt with them in their CDN role on multiple occasions. They're the most abhorrent combination of incompetence and arrogance that I've ever met in the tech industry. They're the Oracle of the network world. Just don't waste your time on them. There's plenty better and cheaper CDNs nowadays. Leave Akamai to the Governments and MegaCorps, they deserve each other.
- stevejones 12y agoThis is the exact opposite of my interactions with Akamai.
- toomuchtodo 12y agoMy experience with them was exactly the same as OP. Wanted us to bring buckets of cash for 10-100TB of bandwidth. Went with CacheFly, super satisfied.
- e12e 12y agoCould you define buckets of cash? On the low end, one gets 30TB/month (1gbps uplink, 200mbs guaranteed) included for ~60 Euro a month, or 100TB for ~160 Euro (for a single server, outbound) at Hetzner: https://www.hetzner.de/gb/hosting/produkte_rootserver/ex60 https://www.hetzner.de/gb/hosting/produkte_rootserver/ex60 Such a single server, isn't the same as a CDN of course, just curious what you consider "buckets of cash". I see cachefly asks for 400 USD for 2/TB a month, for comparison.
- sounds 12y agoI can echo your sentiment.
- the_cat_kittles 12y agoI am right there with you
- TheGrassyKnoll 12y ago> "...They're the Oracle of the network..." That's a hilarious indictment of Akamai. lol... Its gotta be DEFCON 5 in their PR dept.
- jfindley 12y agoFrom my experience, this is confusing the issue - the OP was talking about using their DDoS filtering service, not their CDN. This is done by Prolexic - who despite being acquired by Akamai, still seems to function fairly independently. I've no idea what the CDN team are like, but it's not really fair to say don't use product X from company Y, because product Z sucks. We've tried a number of DDoS filtering services, and Proxleic/Akamai has been the most professional and effective so far. They're also the most expensive, by a fair bit, but you get what you pay for I guess.
- earless1 12y agoAnyone who has ever dealt with Akimai knows that you have to have your Buckets O' cash ready. Cloudflare would probably be the best bang for the buck.
- Dbrinkly 12y agoActually the Prolexic product is one of the most innovative and effective one we've seen to date. DDoS attacks are not a commodity issue, you have to pay to play..Not sure how that makes Akamai horrible..
- greedoshotlast 12y agoI can confirm that Akamai is a pain to deal with. Defense.Net as well. Cloudflare is what I would chose but they are siding with the Chinese gov't at this point.
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- kevcampb 12y agoNot sure what you're basing that statement on. Cloudflare very recently gave support to various parties involed in the pro-democracy movement in Hong Kong. They claimed to have weathered the largest DDoS in history in the process.
- sjwright 12y agoCloudflare didn't side with the Chinese govt. They sided against a group that was abusing their infrastructure.
- snowwrestler 12y agoAgreed. Can't understand why I never see DosArrest on these lists though. They've been doing DDOS protection for a while and are good at it AFAIK. That said, I have no idea if they are interested in taking on the Chinese government.
- lazylizard 12y agoisit possible to combine them? like, would my domain actually resolve if i change my name servers to cloudflare's, then cname it to incapsula? i'm just curious...