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Free CDN : Cloudflare alternatives?
Hi LET!
I'm looking for a list of alternatives to CloudFlare that could be used for a whole site and/or for a subdomain only (static files).
There's incapsula, it's quite good but to be able to get some SSL you need their paid plans, but well for non-ssl sites it can be interesting.
Any other alternatives worth checking out?
(Yeah I know CDN+SSL = MITM - but for this precise project I don't care)
Thanks!
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There is no free alternative as good as cf.
Incapsula I think. But no free ssl there.
OP already knows it.
not any good alternatives even paid ones unable to beat cloudflare
It lacks the CDN part, but there's OVH's free SSL Gateway product. https://www.ovh.com/us/ssl-gateway/
If you're running WordPress then you can use the Photon CDN in Jetpack which works for images on your blog. https://jetpack.com/support/photon/
Interesting, didn't know about that. Is it possible to use it for more than one domains or is it limited to 1 domain / account?
Nope, pretty sure you can order multiple times. Not sure on any specific hard limits, but I'm sure there is one. To add more you just have to go through the normal OVH order process for each new domain and agree to the $0 invoice, etc.
Edit: Yeah, you can order multiple times. Will need to order 1 service per domain, and then once you setup a domain you can configure
(seemingly) unlimited number of subdomainsthe root domain, www subdomain, and a single custom subdomain, andup to 31 origin server to point those subdomains at (on the free plan).https://docs.ovh.com/fr/fr/web/ssl-gateway/utiliser-le-ssl-gateway/
See the FAQ below on that page:
And no level 4 domains.
Not on the Free plan too.
Overall, a very interesting offer, now you no longer need to even buy an OVH VPS if you want a DDOS-protected frontend for your website, turns out they can provide that for free.
One thing I wonder, which DC is this provided from, and can you choose a DC? Is it only France or you can request Canada/Poland/others.
Tried on one domain. It allows for IPv6 > IPv4 which is interesting. It seems like on the free plan it's one IP:PORT (out) per domain while it's 3 with automated round robin on the premium one.
It's possible to switch to HTTPS > OVH > HTTPS (cert can be self signed) > Website once it's setup.
You can choose France or Canada. Which IMO is still pretty good.
Nice, it'd be your own LE cert on the front end? You don't have to share certs with *.freehugsandpornandotherrandomdomain.org anymore.
I'd be curious to know what is the limit in term of load or DDOS this can handle, didn't find anything about yet.. maybe they charge you if that gets too big, but if that's the case that should be written somewhere...
Not sure about that, will check and tell you when mine will have been created. They say it can take up to 24h so they probably get them in batches.
But you already changed your DNS records to point to them, which means your site isn't functional right now?
You still host your DNS where you want, you just point your A / AAAA records to the IP they give you. It then works as an http reverse proxy (http only) and when they have created the cert (up to 24h) they enable https.
When it's http only you already can set up so that ovh -> your server is done with https or not. But on the client site https connections will have an invalid (something.ssl-gateway.ovh.net) cert, while you wait for your cert.
So yeah, if the website is already https it would cause trouble for a few hours. But I guess their idea isn't to be a free DDOS protection with TLS enabled to protect https websites but a way to enable https when your website doesn't support it.
I misread that, yeah looks like only 1 origin server per domain on free. You don't have to hand over the DNS management to them though, they just give you a v4 + v6 address to create the record for, so this isn't a huge issue for me.
I didn't see an option to pick a DC, may've missed it during checkout process? Mine got provisioned in RBX.
http proxying works as soon as it's done provisioning (I edited my hosts and for about 5 mins it gave an OVH 'not configured' error page, then it started working) - just SSL won't work for (I guess) up to 24 hours. I don't see a button to issue the cert so it must run on some time interval or trigger after they've detected the DNS switch.
Yeah from the sunrise page you have no option and it's created in RBX. From OVH website it was possible to choose between RBX & BHS.
It seems like the "protection" on the free plan only works up to 100 currents connections. Curious to know what happens when you have more than 100 connections, are they dropped? What happens if an attach is done directly on a IP, how do they know whose customer is it aimed at?
Ahhh. Ok, that's what it is then, I created them in the panel.
i heard it long time ago, but how long edge cache will be save on cdn. on cloudflare its max 1 month i think, how about incapsula. and max domain for free plans.
https://shovl.io/ just found that, No idea if its good enough.
Nice find. If it uses the same system as what they use for their website, it uses common hosts: his website resolves to ovh canada / hetzner in a round robin.
Seems like it's a one man show not backed by a company, offered by this guy https://github.com/digitaliceberg - could be good, but it's definitely very different than what offer the big players! I'm going to test it, thanks!
Sounds cool:
https://blog.shovl.io/server-room-renovations/
https://blog.shovl.io/shovl-as-a-network/
Lucky for you I just launched my U.S. CDN to my Hosting customers. I haven't had the opportunity to post it on LET yet but feel free to check it out. https://cdn.gullo.me
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Quick Question. What's wrong with github cdn ? Why nobody mention it ?
The cert is only mentioning your domain (in my test at least). It also took way less than 24h, I'd say around one or two hours.
@Cam thanks, that's nice!
Going to check them and add them to my list, thanks!
160ms to the next CDN POP, NY. No.
Mind PMing me where you are pinging from? I don't want to change the topic of this thread.
Thanks!
Where from?
Thanks. I've just registered to give it a try (username free21).
Github's CDN (Fast.ly) is good, but doesn't allow SSL with custom domains on Github Pages (unless you route through CF's SSL MITM).
Gitlab Pages and Netlify allow LE SSL on custom domains.
Quick Google on GitHub cdn show https://rawgit.com on no. 1. And why would you need custom domain on cdn anyway ?
Rawgit is a good service too, but it's not Github's official CDN (e.g., what Github Pages uses); it's just scraping Github and uploading to StackPath.
I have dozens of small static sites that are completely hosted on CDN -- not just a subdomain for large static assets, but the whole site.