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Is the number of Data Centers the same for CloudFlare Business and pro plans?
I've been using cloudflare's pro plan and I recently wanted to upgrade to the Business plan for more speed.
But many people I read say that the number of Data Centers is the same for Business and pro plans, and that only Enterprise plans will enjoy more Data Centers.
Does anyone know if this is the case? If so, I won't waste my money.
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https://www.cloudflare.com/en-gb/plans/#overview
No, they only tell you what Enterprise plans have and not what other plans have.
From my understanding, Free + Pro + Business run on the same base anycast infrastructure with the same PoPs, most of the limitations are imposed on software level between Free, Pro and Business.
Enterprise however provides you the possibility to purchase access to the China Network as well, so you'll get much better local routing over the Asia-Pacific region.
I see, thanks for your reply.
Why not call their sales team and ask?
I'm not sure about other regions, but in Australia the routing seems better with paid plans vs free plans. I've seen traffic being routed to their Singapore PoP on free plans, whereas I've never seen that on paid plans. It could just be that the Australian PoPs are very busy and thus the free traffic is deprioritised very often.
My dear fellow, rather than asking your important question to the learned denizens of this fine community, I feel you would receive a far more assured response by redirecting it to the business in question directly, what?
I concur
I asked, but they couldn't tell me the details, only that it's all based on your location. So, I came here to see if anyone knows what it's like to actually use it.
Iām sorry to report this to you my friend, but if Cloudflare cannot answer this question accurately, the only responses you receive here will be opinion and guesswork rather that statements of fact.
As far as I am aware, the PoPs are the same for all plans - but there are peering differences.
From what I remember, arsehole carriers like Telstra have peering only on Business and above plans.
Help yourself here: https://cloudflare-test.judge.sh/
I've been using Cloudflare for 11+ yrs now on all Cloudflare plans from CF Free, Pro, Business and Enterprise plans
As to Cloudflare Pro vs Free plans, Cloudflare Pro plan is beneficial for higher quotas or page rules, firewall rules, firewall ip/rule limits, rate limiting rules, user agent blocking rules and mirage/polish webp, enhanced HTTP/2 prioritization, TCP Turbo etc which free plan won't have and/or has fewer quota limits for
All these additional quota/features allow you to better make use of Cloudflare for security and performance.
More differences you can see in Cloudflare pricing plan comparison at https://www.cloudflare.com/plans/ which has a link to view and compare all features on that page.
The mentioned https://cloudflare-test.judge.sh/ is a good guide to how peering is for different Cloudflare plan based sites too. There's also an extended explanation at https://github.com/judge2020/cloudflare-connectivity-test/wiki/Explanation
Hope that helps
George
Wow, thank you for such a detailed answer, this is very helpful to me.
wow @eva2000 thanks for such a detailed comment!
Some hosts provide Railgun even for free Cloudflare accounts - BuyVM does this for example.
lol for me this site is saying that the more you pay, the slower it gets š¤š¤š¤š¤
The pings also seem quite high as I get much smaller pings when I ping the sites normally, with some variance: ~15-17ms for the example free sites vs ~12-13ms for the example enterprise sites. I get that these are using HTTP so there'd be some overhead, but these numbers seem quite high.
You're welcome
Yeah Cloudflare Partners can offer up Railgun. And in theory with CF SaaS now, any CF business or higher plan can offer up Railgun to custom hostnames outside of their plan too.
Yeah the metrics aren't entirely accurate, what you should get from that test though is the datacenter that ends up serving the request for each CF plan. Real world metrics would be different from my own experience with CF Free, Pro, Biz and Enterprise plans.
I think variance can be had as each CF paid plan at least now have additional features a site owner can optionally enable to improve performance i.e. CF Argo, Cache Reserve, Tiered Cache, Enhanced Prioritization and TCP Turbo - all these can change a sites performance regardless of the CF plan used.
This "test" isn't even polling the right metrics. Routing in one direction =/= it's the same routing back.
I think the real value in Cloudflare's paid plans are the additional features and options you have on top of their support and work.
That too, CF paid plans get ticket support, CF Biz and higher besides ticket support also get live chat support
This was just to see what colo you are being served from. Maybe 2 and an halfish years ago, before Cloudflare finally upgraded their peering with local ISPs, capacity at Istanbul DC and DE-CIX Istanbul to 100 Gbps from 10 Gbps, it was not uncommon to see AMS, VIE, LHR, OTP, and FRA for domains on free plan where upper plans had the IST.