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CloudFlare is a very nice service for that. As an example you can read that blog post: http://blog.cloudflare.com/moog-music-staying-online-when-go...

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Any idea what CloudFlare's pricing is for high traffic?

I don't think they'd let me stay on their stated $20/month plan.

Just checking the blog post, they only pushed 182GB total.

We run 1.75TB per day!

Edit: Checked it out, they go as low as 0.03/GB which might be feasible.

CloudFlare you get what you pay for. You'll see a pretty high rate of origin pull, which is a metric most people don't look at when comparing CDNs. (i.e. out of every 1000 requests do they refetch from you 1 time or 600 times?)

It might even be disingenuous to call CloudFlare a CDN at all. They are really a web application firewall and app delivery service.

You can set up custom caching rules with longer cache TTLs if you want to minimize origin pulls. Use Page Rules or the Cache TTL from the CloudFlare settings page.

CloudFlare doesn't charge for bandwidth. Your bandwidth levels not an issue. Check out their network graph to see current stats: http://www.cloudflare.com/network-map

Oh no doubt their network as a whole can handle it, but I honestly doubt they'd let that much bandwidth go for $20 a month. They would be losing money with me as a client, and the moment I'm no longer worth the publicity or good will they'd cut me to balance their books.

I prefer the safety of knowing that my interests and my CDNs interests are aligned.

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