CloudFlare Is In Talks to Raise Funding At Near A $1 Billion Valuation

Re:CloudFlare Is In Talks to Raise Funding At Near A $1 Bill... by patrickgzill on Wednesday April 18, 2012 @12:22AM (#3856470)

Enlighten me... a 1U server can handle nearly 1Gbps of traffic. BGP anycast - a solved problem. How many different locations do you need? For USA - Chicago, NYC, WashDC, Boston, LA, Phoenix, Dallas. In Europe - Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Berlin, London, Paris, Moscow/StPete, probably a few I have missed. Australia, Singapore, Taiwan, HongKong. Half a rack (20U) in each location would more than cover most, though possibly the USA would require more.

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Re:CloudFlare Is In Talks to Raise Funding At Near A $1 Bill... by nl on Wednesday April 18, 2012 @01:41AM (#3856672)

http://fastly.com does that: Varnish on SSDs.

But Cloudflare isn't just a CDN, it has an application firewall/security thing built in too.

That's important because suddenly you can't get away with just Varnish, and rolling Apache+mod_security out to each node is probably insufficient as well.

Edit: fixed url, thanks.

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Re:CloudFlare Is In Talks to Raise Funding At Near A $1 Bill... by stickfigure on Wednesday April 18, 2012 @02:52AM (#3856824)

CloudFlare also provides basic analytics, DNS, url rewrite rules, and a fairly decent UI.

The idea of rebuilding it for $250k is ludicrous.

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Re:CloudFlare Is In Talks to Raise Funding At Near A $1 Bill... by macros on Wednesday April 18, 2012 @02:11AM (#3856734)

http://fastly.com

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Re:CloudFlare Is In Talks to Raise Funding At Near A $1 Bill... by pbreit on Wednesday April 18, 2012 @01:09PM (#3859005)

And fastly is crazy expensive.

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