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Re:Google CDN Beta is already one of the fastest CDNs by boulos on Monday April 18, 2016 @05:48PM (#11523396)
I'm not the OP, but I'm not sure why they included MaxCDN and Fastly but not (at least) CloudFlare's free service.

Disclosure: I work on Compute Engine (though I had nothing to do with this service).

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Re:Google CDN Beta is already one of the fastest CDNs by forcer on Monday April 18, 2016 @06:30PM (#11523586)
OP here: You are right, CloudFlare would have been nice and in retrospect we should have added it. I think it would have fared quite nicely as during all the tests we do on regular basis its doing really well.
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Re:Google CDN Beta is already one of the fastest CDNs by latchkey on Monday April 18, 2016 @07:17PM (#11523785)
Irony = their site is on CF.

  $ whois speedchecker.xyz
  Domain Name: SPEEDCHECKER.XYZ
  Name Server: LEE.NS.CLOUDFLARE.COM
  Name Server: PAM.NS.CLOUDFLARE.COM
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Re:Google CDN Beta is already one of the fastest CDNs by mstrem on Monday April 18, 2016 @08:44PM (#11524154)
I think the OP just added CloudFlare when the site was overloaded earlier...
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Re:Google CDN Beta is already one of the fastest CDNs by forcer on Tuesday April 19, 2016 @01:21AM (#11525043)
yes. That is true. We did not expected the post will get that popular. Unfortunately, it was all done too late. What helped us the most was that blog is hosted on DigitalOcean VPS. We scaled up to the most powerful instance and instantly the blog was back. Kudos to DigitalOcean, it saved our bacon big time today :)
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