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Re:Cloudflare Raises $150M and Adds to Board of Directors by dmytton on Tuesday March 12, 2019 @08:42AM (#19367537)
I'm VP, Product Engineering at https://www.stackpath.com and we feel like our products compete nicely alongside Cloudflare in DNS, WAF, CDN and Serverless (our EdgeEngine product uses v8 just like Cloudflare workers).

Our Edge Containers product launch was also on HN last month: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19089614

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Re:Cloudflare Raises $150M and Adds to Board of Directors by kawsper on Tuesday March 12, 2019 @10:15AM (#19368278)
Hi,

I am a user of MaxCDN (which was bought by Stackpath) and on every page you write "Everything customers loved about MaxCDN has been integrated into the StackPath CDN Edge Service" which isn't true and just marketing speech.

MaxCDN had an API called the "raw logs api" that let my service query yours to get an understanding of what requests you have served for us, but that feature is missing with Stackpath, the feature is described here: https://reseller-docs.maxcdn.com/#raw-logs-api

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Re:Cloudflare Raises $150M and Adds to Board of Directors by spben on Tuesday March 12, 2019 @12:12PM (#19369676)
Hi,

This is super helpful, really appreciate it. I will say that this feature along with reporting delivery by file is among the top feature requests on the new SP// platform.

We do have the ability to provide you with access logs, but it's not as convenient as the API above.

We also have several users creating real-time CDN logs with our Serverless EdgeEngine so that's an option as well.

Anyways, I've noted your request around the raw logs API going to the new platform and will be sure to stay on top of it.

Feel free to email me anytime, always happy to help - ben.gabler (at) stackpath (dot) com

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Re:Cloudflare Raises $150M and Adds to Board of Directors by bbb91 on Tuesday March 12, 2019 @10:58AM (#19368746)
When it comes to bandwidth, you can't really compete with Cloudflare.

Your $200/month plan gives us 10TB. I've served over 50TB on Cloudflare's $20/month plan, which probably makes me a "bad customer", but it's nice not having to worry about this when someone decides to use a direct link to a video or image I host.

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Re:Cloudflare Raises $150M and Adds to Board of Directors by jjeaff on Tuesday March 12, 2019 @01:24PM (#19370637)
They don't allow video streaming on their regular plans. How are you able to serve up videos on the $20/month plan?
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Re:Cloudflare Raises $150M and Adds to Board of Directors by bbb91 on Tuesday March 12, 2019 @11:52PM (#19375568)
Cloudflare works as a reverse proxy, it loads what's on your server. We can cache videos by using a page rule.

I guess they only ask you to upgrade if you serve a huge amount of bandwidth.

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Re:Cloudflare Raises $150M and Adds to Board of Directors by porker on Tuesday March 12, 2019 @02:59PM (#19371744)
I've talked with your sales teams a couple of times about tag-based purging, which is the one Varnish/Fastly feature I cannot live without.

I understand it isn't implemented on one of them (MaxCDN IIRC) and StackPath does not provide pricing suited for smaller projects (where the traffic is GBs/month, but the speed gain from caching dynamic content is the reason for using a CDN).

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Re:Cloudflare Raises $150M and Adds to Board of Directors by spben on Wednesday March 13, 2019 @08:22AM (#19377897)
I'd be more than happy to work with you on this. I run Product & Software here at SP// so I know the right people ;) feel free to email me ben.gabler (at) stackpath (dot) com
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Re:Cloudflare Raises $150M and Adds to Board of Directors by jabart on Tuesday March 12, 2019 @09:22AM (#19367832)
Failover is a major difference I find between Cloudflare and Stackpath. Just a WAF with more options for failover or load balancing would put things on equal footing. This was based on my last trial back in November.
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Re:Cloudflare Raises $150M and Adds to Board of Directors by dmytton on Tuesday March 12, 2019 @09:37AM (#19367960)
It'd be great to understand a bit more about how you'd like to see this working. The WAF product team report into me so I can get a discussion going with the right people if you'd like to email me: [email protected]
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