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Decisions about CloudFlare, MaxCDN, and MetaCDN
Francesco Boffa

I don't think I have registered a domain in the last 10 years that hasn't been linked to CloudFlare within the first 2 hours from registration.

The benefits you get from even the free version of CloudFlare are amazing. From day 0: - 30/80% of bandwidth savings thanks to their CDN - Origin IP address protection - Managed SSL

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Pros of CloudFlare
Pros of MaxCDN
Pros of MetaCDN
  • 424
    Easy setup, great cdn
  • 277
    Free ssl
  • 199
    Easy setup
  • 190
    Security
  • 180
    Ssl
  • 98
    Great cdn
  • 77
    Optimizer
  • 71
    Simple
  • 44
    Great UI
  • 28
    Great js cdn
  • 12
    Apps
  • 12
    HTTP/2 Support
  • 12
    DNS Analytics
  • 12
    AutoMinify
  • 9
    Rocket Loader
  • 9
    Ipv6
  • 9
    Easy
  • 8
    IPv6 "One Click"
  • 8
    Fantastic CDN service
  • 7
    DNSSEC
  • 7
    Nice DNS
  • 7
    SSHFP
  • 7
    Free GeoIP
  • 7
    Amazing performance
  • 7
    API
  • 7
    Cheapest SSL
  • 6
    SPDY
  • 6
    Free and reliable, Faster then anyone else
  • 5
    Ubuntu
  • 5
    Asynchronous resource loading
  • 4
    Global Load Balancing
  • 4
    Performance
  • 4
    Easy Use
  • 3
    CDN
  • 2
    Registrar
  • 2
    Support for SSHFP records
  • 1
    Web3
  • 1
    Прохси
  • 1
    HTTPS3/Quic
  • 47
    Easy setup
  • 33
    Speed to my clients
  • 15
    Great service & Customer Support
  • 5
    Shared and Affordable SSL
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    Cons of CloudFlare
    Cons of MaxCDN
    Cons of MetaCDN
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      No support for SSHFP records
    • 2
      Expensive when you exceed their fair usage limits
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        What is CloudFlare?

        Cloudflare speeds up and protects millions of websites, APIs, SaaS services, and other properties connected to the Internet.

        What is MaxCDN?

        The MaxCDN Content Delivery Network efficiently delivers your site’s static file through hundreds of servers instead of slogging through a single host. This "smart route" technology distributes your content to your visitors via the city closest to them.

        What is MetaCDN?

        MetaCDN harnesses and combines existing CDN networks. We offer a truly global CDN network and our patent pending technology dynamically selects the CDN provider which will be fastest for individual users.

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        What are some alternatives to CloudFlare, MaxCDN, and MetaCDN?
        Akamai
        If you've ever shopped online, downloaded music, watched a web video or connected to work remotely, you've probably used Akamai's cloud platform. Akamai helps businesses connect the hyperconnected, empowering them to transform and reinvent their business online. We remove the complexities of technology, so you can focus on driving your business faster forward.
        Incapsula
        Through an application-aware, global content delivery network (CDN), Incapsula provides any website and web application with best-of-breed security, DDoS protection, load balancing and failover solutions.
        Netlify
        Netlify is smart enough to process your site and make sure all assets gets optimized and served with perfect caching-headers from a cookie-less domain. We make sure your HTML is served straight from our CDN edge nodes without any round-trip to our backend servers and are the only ones to give you instant cache invalidation when you push a new deploy. Netlify is also the only static hosting service with integrated continuous deployment.
        Fastly
        Fastly's real-time content delivery network gives you total control over your content, unprecedented access to performance analytics, and the ability to instantly update content in 150 milliseconds.
        Cloudflare CDN
        A CDN is a distributed network of servers that provides several advantages for a web site: Cached content: By caching web site content, It helps improve page load speeds, reduce bandwidth usage, and reduce CPU usage on the server.
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