I'd rather see some serious competition for Cloudflare to be honest. They're slowly becoming the best and only choice. Competitors exist (like Incapsula) but they're usually just not that good.
Our Edge Containers product launch was also on HN last month: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19089614
I am a user of MaxCDN (which was bought by Stackpath) and on every page you write "Everything customers loved about MaxCDN has been integrated into the StackPath CDN Edge Service" which isn't true and just marketing speech.
MaxCDN had an API called the "raw logs api" that let my service query yours to get an understanding of what requests you have served for us, but that feature is missing with Stackpath, the feature is described here: https://reseller-docs.maxcdn.com/#raw-logs-api
This is super helpful, really appreciate it. I will say that this feature along with reporting delivery by file is among the top feature requests on the new SP// platform.
We do have the ability to provide you with access logs, but it's not as convenient as the API above.
We also have several users creating real-time CDN logs with our Serverless EdgeEngine so that's an option as well.
Anyways, I've noted your request around the raw logs API going to the new platform and will be sure to stay on top of it.
Feel free to email me anytime, always happy to help - ben.gabler (at) stackpath (dot) com
Your $200/month plan gives us 10TB. I've served over 50TB on Cloudflare's $20/month plan, which probably makes me a "bad customer", but it's nice not having to worry about this when someone decides to use a direct link to a video or image I host.
I guess they only ask you to upgrade if you serve a huge amount of bandwidth.
I understand it isn't implemented on one of them (MaxCDN IIRC) and StackPath does not provide pricing suited for smaller projects (where the traffic is GBs/month, but the speed gain from caching dynamic content is the reason for using a CDN).
Not when it comes to pricing.
Cloudflare is the Heroku of the CDN space. They are easy to setup, they give away free or cheap accounts to get people on their service. Once a company gets big and starts having real traffic they move off of Cloudflare to a better provider.
Akamai isn't competing with Cloudflare on price, much like The French Laundry isn't competing with McDonalds on price.
CloudFlare’s $200/month plan is the best CDN per $ money can buy.
Once you get into “Enterprise”, then you should move somewhere else as they stop being competitive.
Walmart is still Amazon's competitor, despite being much cheaper in many cases.
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Not saying they are better than Cloudflare. I use Cloudflare myself. But they are good alternatives.
https://www.godaddy.com/hosting/premium-dns
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/dns/
https://dyn.com/dns/managed-dns/
https://www.namecheap.com/domains/freedns/ (free option)
So, that's my review of Namecheap freeDNS. I suppose they make it bad on purpose so people upgrade to their premium DNS?
For my own stuff, I use digitalocean for hosting so use their nameservers for DNS.
1. mTLS 2. Websockets 3. Bot Mitigation (credential stuffing) 4. Workers
We need mTLS and Websocket support. Other providers in the space may support one but not the other which is a problem.
Websockets was a requirement in the application at that time and of course we knew we we needed to remove it as a dependency and we have for the most part.