Re:CloudFlare Is In Talks to Raise Funding At Near A $1 Bill...
by stickfigure on Wednesday April 18, 2012 @02:52AM
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CloudFlare also provides basic analytics, DNS, url rewrite rules, and a fairly decent UI.
The idea of rebuilding it for $250k is ludicrous.
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.