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Comment by kalleboo | Hacker News Reader

So now the big question is... any reason to switch to this from googleapis.com? Short term loss in cacheablilty since the Google one is so widespread, long term less dependence on the Google corporation. Insecurity since CloudFlare seems like a prime target for an acquisition/acquihire.

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I am in Brazil and I have a 15ms RTT to googleapis.com and a 160ms RTT to cdnjs.cloudflare.com. So please don't switch.

It's not a representative test (as I'm only providing one source), but I'm seeing lots and lots of websites proving that CloudFlare is faster than Google's CDN.

It might be because their "userbase" is still smaller than Google, but for now that might be 1 interesting reason to use CloudFlare.

http://www.baldnerd.com/make-your-site-faster-cloudflares-cd...

No clue about their relative speeds, but that test is pretty bad, as it seems to only measure transfer rate once the transfer starts, not total transfer time (including latency).

I just picked the first result from Google. This isn't StackOverflow, so I could imagine that the topicstarter would actually do some research himself.

If you have users in China, then you definitely need an alternative to Google. Google has been almost completely blocked since the days leading up to the 25th anniversary of Tiananmen, so sites using Google's CDN are broken in China. Most people assumed the block would be lifted after the anniversary passed, but so far it's still in place.

We have users in China, and unfortunately CloudFlare is banned there too. Also Russia blocks some of CloudFlare's IP addresses, and Iraq AFAICT.

I am in Shanghai and CloudFlare seems to suffer from rolling blocks mostly against SSL content. We notice as we have a ecommerce site behind their service, our customer are in the EU so no bother really just a pain sometime to get their orders out... connections to Google in almost all forms is basically dead now. Weirdly I don't remember HackerNews getting blocked and thats on CF too???

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