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Ask HN: Global non-HTTP CDN provider

2 pointsby gtech19 months ago
Can anyone recommend a service that:<p>1. Has great worldwide premium networking ( no Comcast! )<p>and either:<p>2. allows me to run a VPS at their edge locations<p>or<p>3. provides a service that allows me to connect back to our own DC via the proxy protocol<p>Context: tried a number of vps providers: vultr, linode, etc where I run haproxy but their infrastructure is flaky, there&#x27;s no SLA. I need to proxy non-http traffic.<p>I checked out HAProxy Edge but their own network isn&#x27;t very quick from the locations I&#x27;m interested in ( mainly Asia -&gt; NA ).<p>I also checked out Fly.io but saw 5 errors in 5 minutes from trying to deploy an app&#x2F;machine so I backed out.

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jcat1239 months ago
Hey, I work at HAProxy. Want to reach out to me in a DM on <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.linkedin.com&#x2F;in&#x2F;jakubsuchyus&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.linkedin.com&#x2F;in&#x2F;jakubsuchyus&#x2F;</a> and I&#x27;ll see if I can connect you with our Edge team to see what we can do about your Asia -&gt; NA needs?
solardev9 months ago
If your use case requires custom networking and a SLA, isn&#x27;t that a situation to just go with one of the big clouds (AWS&#x2F;GCP&#x2F;Azure) or else rent a VM or colo at a local data center?<p>The consumer-facing CDNs usually cache HTTP traffic at edge nodes because there&#x27;s a standard pattern for it. If you&#x27;re doing something different, you can probably go to a lower level of networking and abstractions?