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Re:Fastly Outage by unityByFreedom on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @08:27AM (#27434218)
Fair point. Maybe Fastly is more akin to Akamai given it seems to be more enterprise-y. By market cap, Cloudflare is 26 billion, Akamai is 18, and Fastly is 6.

Fastly's free offering gives you "$50 worth of traffic" whereas Cloudflare has a perpetually free option. And for Akamai you have to apply for a free trial.

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Re:Fastly Outage by krzyk on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @10:41AM (#27435798)
This is market cap, but if you look at amount of traffic you have Akamai estimated at 15-30%, CF at 10%.

So if it would go down, it would cripple vast amount of internet.

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Re:Fastly Outage by mekkkkkk on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @11:00AM (#27436072)
Akamai is balls deep in video streaming, which is probably the most bandwidth/traffic intense thing for a CDN to dabble with. My guess is that CF has much more diverse traffic. Hence the fallout from an interruption would be quite different.
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Re:Fastly Outage by krzyk on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @01:30PM (#27438226)
Not quite, Akamai is more large corp centric (they don't serve average Joe) besides that they do also security. If it went down you would get all of sudden e.g. a lot of DDOS possible.
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