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Cloudflare Alternative but CDN only?
valentinex
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So Cloudflare has decided to "lock" my website in infinite "HTTP DDOS" loop. Meaning that any request that is made, from any kind of IP is blocked due to "HTTP DDOS".
Ref: https://community.cloudflare.com/t/cloudflare-blocks-all-access-to-my-website/748095 & https://community.cloudflare.com/t/sorry-you-have-been-blocked-ddos-block-all-ip-s/747474
Because i use Free plan, i cannot contact CF Support...
If anyone knows a way how to fix it, lmk.
Anyway, because of the above, I'm looking for Alternative to Cloudflare.
I'll keep it simple:
100k-200k Unique visitors per month | 2M-3M requests p/m
30GB - 50GB bandwidth p/m. No Live/VOD streaming or anything like that. Simple HTML/PHP pages.
I don't care about WAF, blocking AI bots, crawlers, whatever. Neither about DDOS protection.
I simply want to "hide" my origin and a CDN, so that if somebody from Australia visits my site, it won't take him 3 seconds to load because my origin is located in Europe for example.
Any recommendations?
I just signed up for GCore, seems cool, but i feel like there' s a catch regarding the pricing. As i understand, i should be able to use their service for Free, as my usage should fall under their Free plan, but still.
Feel free to recommend any services below.
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Bunny or DDoS-guard. I don't think that there is something else.
There is https://www.cdnperf.com/tools/cdn-calculator/
P.s. Probably biased AF, but still it has list of CDN providers.
sucuri
I think Gcore CDN is free for first 1000GB.
Bunny if you want a reason to keep hopping around
Big vouch for Gcore, and a smaller vouch for Bunny.
Use shared hosting with good performance.
Thanks a lot. I'll stick with Gcore for now and see how it does.
I've also came across https://dutchis.net/ on this Forum.
Has anyone used it? I see that their Thread is locked, but service still appears to be up and running.
I haven't used it, but various remarks on this forum don't inspire confidence. I like the idea of a nameserver under the .nl TLD, however.
https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/comment/4553117#Comment_4553117
Damn, this is sad to hear.
I also have an account with them, same hopes (real CF alternative), but still didn't manage to configure and test the service properly
Gcore’s the only reliable alternative I’m aware of.
You should check out Bunny CDN (aff/non-aff). I am using it on many websites and seems to be an really good alternative to Cloudflare CDN. Their pricing is really affordable for everyone and support is very responsive.
You just reminded me of one of my domains. I bought a new domain and pointed it to Cloudflare, and suddenly it shows there’s some unpaid balance on it. Cloudflare is asking me to pay it just to activate the domain.
Like seriously? I literally just bought it, and it looks like the previous owner didn’t pay their dues. Why should I have to pay for someone else’s mess?
I even tried contacting them. There’s an email you can reach out to, but they take like a week to reply. And their answer was basically “nothing we can do, it’s part of our billing system.” If I want to keep using the domain with them, I have to pay what the previous owner owes 🤣
Checkout KeyCDN (Switzerland)
Bunny is a drop-in replacement. They're positioning themselves to be a direct competitor to CF, especially for CDN. Better uptime too in my experience, CF has been rocky this year.
For registration or for DNS hosting?
Just DNS hosting.
I’ve got a bunch of domains there and I’m using their free plan.
But the moment I added this new domain, it suddenly showed a billing issue saying there are unpaid charges tied to this domain that need to be paid.
What kind of nonsense is that?
The fact that the name was previously held was known. Correct?
try bunny. simple cdn or there is cdn77
Alternative is not some subpar replacements. Akamai is alternative, but sadly not aligned in pricing.
I've also came across https://sprintcdn.com/products/ddos-protection/layer7 - but apparently they lack locations.
I think yes, it belonged to someone, and I bought it as new..
Fastly, Cloudfront (AWS), and GCore have good free tiers. Bunny is inexpensive and good. There are others like Beluga that I haven't tried.
I'm not very familiar with options for the European region; however, if you are looking for coverage in mainland China, I do know of a pretty good CDN provider.
A carefully guarded secret, i guess?
been using bunnycdn for a few years and github's jsdelivr both work great.
Thanks guys!