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Re:CloudFlare was down by SchizoDuckie on Sunday March 03, 2013 @06:12AM (#5313367)
So if you spent just $200/mo on a CDN, Did you really need that CDN at all?
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Re:CloudFlare was down by rdl on Sunday March 03, 2013 @06:15AM (#5313370)
That's irrelevant. A free hobby site might be worth spending $200/mo on CDN for, but I'm not going to drop the $10-30k/mo to get an $AKAM sales rep to call me back.

If you're doing mostly static data which rarely changes, you can probably get very high hit rates on CloudFlare, and it's cheaper than even crappy $750/Gbps/mo colo bandwidth then.

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Re:CloudFlare was down by LemonDrizzle on Sunday March 03, 2013 @07:00AM (#5313444)
Rackspace Cloud Files is powered by Akamai.
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Re:CloudFlare was down by rdl on Sunday March 03, 2013 @07:07AM (#5313452)
I thought it was Limelight by default, and you had to pay extra for Akamai.

(EDIT: I guess they switched; I haven't kept up with Rackspace)

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