CDNPerf[1] provides a real-time performance analysis of all major CDN providers.<p>I have researched this space a lot, and my conclusions are:<p>- Cloudflare: the best all-in-one solution, as long as you don't go above the Business tier<p>- Fastly: the most technically advanced CDN, but also one of the most expensive ones (there is a reason why StackExchange and Reddit moved from Cloudflare to Fastly)<p>- KeyCDN: the best fully-featured value-for-money CDN, if you just want to replace AWS Cloudfront CDN / Google Cloud CDN / Azure CDN<p>- BunnyCDN: the best value-for-money CDN for distributing large static assets across the globe (can get as low as $0.0025 / GB)<p>[1] <a href="https://www.cdnperf.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.cdnperf.com/</a>
I'd rather see some serious competition for Cloudflare to be honest. They're slowly becoming the best and only choice. Competitors exist (like Incapsula) but they're usually just not that good.
ex-cloudflarer:<p>Cloudflare is undergoing a lot of big projects to break away from the image that they are "just a CDN". Raising a round now instead of going public allows them to invest more on those projects instead of focusing on quarter to quarter results. Also, avoiding brain-drains post-IPO while they need those talents the most.<p>Raising another round also allows them to have a higher per-share value which helps hiring. It's been a long time since the last round and the real value of Cloudflare's stock offers was higher than what the last funding round would suggest. Now it's easier to point to this round rather than just give vague promises.<p>I do wonder how people feel about this internally though. There's a lot of expectation that the company would go public this year (and some even expected it would go public last year). Hopefully no one needs the money they put in to early exercise any time soon!
According to the news Cloudflare was planning $3.5 billion IPO this year.<p><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-cloudflare-ipo/web-performance-software-company-cloudflare-readies-ipo-sources-idUSKCN1MX2SI" rel="nofollow">https://www.reuters.com/article/us-cloudflare-ipo/web-perfor...</a>
> Mar 12, 2019 - Series E - $150M<p>> Sep 22, 2015 - Series D - $110M<p>> Dec 17, 2013 - Series C - $50M<p>> Jul 12, 2011 - Series B - $20M<p>> Nov 25, 2009 - Series A - $2.1M<p>> Jun 1, 2009 - Non Equity Assistance - ?<p>Seems like their rounds of fundings are slowing down.<p>There were also rumors of a $3.5B IPO.<p>I wonder if the founders still have a majority stake in the company.<p><a href="https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/cloudflare" rel="nofollow">https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/cloudflare</a>
I'm still waiting on this "Bandwidth Alliance" pricing. I'm on Azure and have seen no downtick in my bandwidth bill, though we use Cloudflare pretty much exclusively.
Doesn't raising this kind of money scream that you're eventually going to start to monetize the data flowing through your network (e.g. telecoms selling location data to bounty hunters)?
Found a CDN comparison page with a repo on github. Strange no Cloudflare in the table.<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19367675" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19367675</a>
Meanwhile I am still waiting for a free tier on the serverless workers [1] stuff they've been advertising whole of the last year.
There is no real reason in paying $5/month for 10M requests when you can't even get accustomed or do a proof of concept beforehand.<p>[1] <a href="https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/about/how-workers-work/" rel="nofollow">https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/about/how-workers-...</a>