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This is pretty important for a network service which is inherently inline for all your traffic. It isn't so important for something like a video cache (which I don't think CloudFlare even supports), but for DDoS protection and services like that, I don't think I'd want to use a non-PCI certified service even if I weren't required to.

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> a video cache (which I don't think CloudFlare even supports)

Why wouldn't it?

Here's your basic HTTP Live Streaming server, it can serve VOD or live events to dozens, perhaps hundreds of users:

cd /path/to/video/and/m3u8 && python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8000

Done.

CloudFlare caches HTTP objects, therefore CloudFlare caches video.

Except that according to https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/200168476-H... that isn't true:

CloudFlare is not suitable for websites that stream video or audio directly from their origin server. If a website uses YouTube or Vimeo for the videos embedded on your website, then that is compatible with CloudFlare. Streaming content should be on a subdomain CloudFlare doesn't touch, if a customer would still like to speed up the rest of their site.

There may be a limit on the size of the objects, or even the file type that cloudflare will actually cache. Along with that there's many other protocols that get used for serving videos RTMP/E and then another that MS uses for Windows Media Player that I can't remember the name of. All of which won't get cached by cloudflare.

https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/200172516-W...

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