[HN Gopher] Drop in Cloudflare Replacement
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Drop in Cloudflare Replacement
Having trouble finding a drop-in replacement for Cloudflare. Any
suggestions? - CacheFly has no easy trial to sign up for - Fastly
has no DNS - CDN77 has no DNS - Google, Amazon, Azure are stand
alone CDN There doesn't seem to be a good alternative? Or, am I
missing something?
Author : ivanstegic
Score : 16 points
Date : 2022-09-15 22:03 UTC (57 minutes ago)
| christophilus wrote:
| It depends on why you use them. I use BunnyCDN which is fine for
| my usage. I use my own video transcoding servers (hosted on
| Netcup for suuuper cheap). I use Render for my applications. I
| use Cloudflare for a proxy, but could probably replace it in a
| week or so using Go + Caddy + a VPS of some kind and it would
| probably be fine for my use case.
|
| It really depends on your use case and volume.
| ivanstegic wrote:
| I need something I can pay a fair amount for, that provides DNS
| service and HTML and file asset acceleration. I want to switch
| the proxy on, let it offload as much of the traffic from the
| original source server as possible, and forget about it. My
| clients should be able to control their DNS on their own, on
| let us do it for them. They should only have access to their
| own domains.
| ivanstegic wrote:
| bunny.net keeps coming up, that's great! any takes on CacheFly?
| alberth wrote:
| Which functionality from Cloudflare do you need? They have quite
| of few offerings.
| ivanstegic wrote:
| oh, also: separate accounts with domains per account so my
| clients can access their own set of domains. I need some sort
| of separation of permissions.
| latchkey wrote:
| Or, what's wrong with CF?
| MacsHeadroom wrote:
| Centralization, censorship, not supporting competition, etc.
| rsstack wrote:
| - How can a business, specifically a CDN, not be
| centralized?
|
| - Your business, your values, you're of course free to
| ignore Cloudflare if you disagree with their policies.
|
| - What kind of support are they supposed to give their
| competitors that they aren't?
| ivanstegic wrote:
| Honestly, it's the DNS and whole HTML/File assets caching and
| acceleration that it provides.
| yamtaddle wrote:
| If you're willing to have two logins rather than one, your
| options are practically limitless. Get DNS from one provider,
| CDN from another, problem solved. There's even a decent
| chance your registrar offers DNS, which means you're _not_
| adding an extra login (unless CloudFlare 's also your
| registrar)
|
| If you must have DNS bundled with the other stuff, your
| options are... way less limitless.
| ivanstegic wrote:
| I am OK with separating it out. It's much easier to manage
| for a larger number of clients though. That's why!
| yamtaddle wrote:
| Some providers of DNS and/or CDN have configuration Web
| APIs that can make managing multiple service providers
| less painful, especially if you're already scripting a
| lot of your other configuration (virtual machine
| deployments & config, or what have you)
| izzytcp wrote:
| You won't, unfortunately Cloudflare has no direct competitors.
| rmdoss wrote:
| A couple that I know:
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| Sucuri: DNS, WAF and CDN
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| NOC.org: DNS, WAF and CDN
| ivanstegic wrote:
| noc.org looked great to me, then I started clicking around and
| all I got what raw PHP files! for example, the homepage:
|
| <?php
|
| $content_canonical = "https://noc.org/"; $content_ogtype =
| "website";
|
| include "includes/header.php"; ?> <!-- Mashead header-->
| <header class="masthead"> <div class="container px-5"> <div
| class="row gx-5 align-items-center"> <div class="col-lg-6">
| <!-- Mashead text and app badges--> <div class="mb-5 mb-lg-0
| text-center text-lg-start">
| mdasen wrote:
| I think having separate DNS from your CDN isn't that big a deal,
| but bunny.net will combine both. Their DNS is currently in
| preview (open preview to anyone), but it looks like it'll be
| offering what you want.
|
| Cloudflare has been taking a more expansive view of a CDN, but
| bunny.net seems to be going in that direction as well. They're
| offering CDN, DNS, storage, and video so far.
| yamtaddle wrote:
| > Cloudflare has been taking a more expansive view of a CDN,
| but bunny.net seems to be going in that direction as well.
| They're offering CDN, DNS, storage, and video so far.
|
| I think most CDNs are at least _trying_ to do this. I suspect
| the margins on nice-to-haves attached to CDN are way higher
| than heavily-commidified CDN on its own. Plus it gives you a
| deeper moat and much stronger lock-in.
| freedom-fries wrote:
| > Google, Amazon, Azure are stand alone CDN
|
| Not really sure what exactly you are looking for and at what
| price point, but Google and AWS both have domain registration and
| WW highly available DNS services.
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