Akamai has had SureRoute and Tiered distribution for probably over a decade.<p>It would be nice if the HN front page can stop serving as Ad space for CloudFlare.
The pricing model on this makes no sense. Argo claims to optimize the route between Cloudflare and the origin, which is only used during cache misses, yet they charge $0.10/gb for <i>all</i> traffic from Cloudflare to visitors.<p>Considering most sites will be aiming for a high cache hit rate, I don't see this being very attractive unless your user base is constantly logged in and hitting your backend.
Any chance the Smart Routing would be available as a TCP/UDP proxy service? It would be great to take advantage of Cloudflare's network without having to hand over your SSL keys.
has anyone moved their site to argo yet? i am looking for some benchmarks for it. so far i found this site that did move to it and it sounds like they had a little improvement, but no where near as much as cloudflare blog post leads us to believe?<p><a href="https://www.rootusers.com/cloudflare-argo-benchmark/" rel="nofollow">https://www.rootusers.com/cloudflare-argo-benchmark/</a><p>if you have moved over plz let me know how if it has helped you.