What CDN are you using with IPS? Why?

[pequeno]

I know that many of you use CDN on your websites. We are going to do a survey and opinions from your experience are appreciated.

Actually I am currently using Cloudflare and Cloudfront. But I akm testing Cloudfront in only one website. So I select Cloudflare.

Why Cloudflare?

• Price
• Include WAF
• Acceptable support.

Why am I testing Cloudfront?

• I expected better performance in Cloudflare. I want to compare.
• I want to test te Cloudfront configuration for a possible future migration of other websites.

Edited May 2, 2020 by pequeno

[Bluto]

Cloudflare.  Free plan with great firewall rules works fine for me.  I use centmin mod and he has cloudflare integration.  It works well.

[ASTRAPI]

Cloudflare:

Free plan

Huge network

Super optimized with latest technologies

Almost all settings with a simple click

They use encryption on all datacenters

e.t.c

[pequeno]

It's a shame that cloudfront is more expensive than Cloudflare, because these days, on cloudflare websites I sometimes notice a slow load of up to 5-7 seconds and at the same time in websites that I have through Cloudfront load immediately, and they are all on the same server.
I currently have 1Tb of monthly transfer, which would imply an expense of 85 USD in Coudfront.

[ptprog]

I got the best results with the old EdgeCast (now Verizon) CDN a few years ago, using their "small objects" variant.

I tried other ones, such as Cloudfront, CDN77, and Cloudflare.  At the time Cloudfront was good (not as good as EdgeCast, though), but it was the most expensive, due to the number of requests that are also paid.  CDN77 was not particularly good.  Cloudflare (free version) was the worse.

Since I moved to HTTPS, I stopped using CDNs completely (the costs were higher, and the benefits were lower, specially as my server supported HTTP2 and the CDN usually did not at the time).

[pequeno]

Thnak @ptprog

Currently in my tests, I continue to see that Cloudfront is much faster than Cloudflare.

Edited May 10, 2020 by pequeno

[maddog107_merged]

cloudflare because of costs. Moving anywhere else to serve 30TB/mo is not feasible 😞

 

[AA15]

How does CloudFlare work for CDN? If my users or I upload images for example, CloudFlare does everything automatically after I set my name servers to there’s?

 

in other words my image URLs all stay the same as if I only had something like shared hosting?

Edited May 16, 2020 by AA15

[AlexWebsites]

On 5/2/2020 at 8:51 AM, Bluto said:

Cloudflare.  Free plan with great firewall rules works fine for me.  I use centmin mod and he has cloudflare integration.  It works well.

Same here on all my sites