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79 cents cheaper = "beats this hard" with no analysis of the performance or reliability differences? Or even time to set up? B2 is still missing basic website functionality that you have to code and test yourself. [1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23071273

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Cloudflare has way more points of presence than AWS Cloudfront even inside US and Europe, set aside countries like Russia or Australia. There's no point using Cloudfront unless you deeply integrated into AWS or negotiated serious price discount.

I have some clients that use Cloudflare, and others that use CloudFront. All of the CloudFront sites perform far better than all of the Cloudflare sites.

I don't care how many points of presence Cloudflare has if the performance is worse.

> I don't care how many points of presence Cloudflare has if the performance is worse.

Do you have any data that supports your claims?

As I stated, they are client websites, which I don't particularly feel like disclosing. It's trivially easy to find benchmarks. [1] is old, but it gives you an idea of the stark differences that I have seen in practice.

[1] https://goldfirestudios.com/cdn-benchmarks-cloudflare-vs-clo...

[2] https://www.bizety.com/2018/05/01/network-performance-benchm...

Just curious, what metrics?

TTFB and total load time

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