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2. Of the YC companies that use hosting providers, 55% use AWS, 13% use Cloudflare and 6% use Rackspace. Cloudflare is a CDN exclusively, right? Why are they c
by westernmostcoy 10y ago
2. Of the YC companies that use hosting providers, 55% use AWS, 13% use Cloudflare and 6% use Rackspace.
Cloudflare is a CDN exclusively, right? Why are they counted among the hosting providers and not with CDNs in the next line?
- ebbv 10y agoYeah CloudFlare is not a hosting provider, so that piece seems erroneous. They are on the CDN line below, I just don't understand why they ended up on this line. Maybe because people's DNS points at CloudFlare?
- deleted 10y ago[deleted]
- grape_ 10y agoThat's correct, but it's very difficult to determine the hosting environment if you're using a CDN. I have a write up on my blog at https://www.gra.pe/?p=36 https://www.gra.pe/?p=36. But the idea is that if you know the hosting IP, you now where the IP sits (ASN). If you determine the ASN, you know which provider is being used.
- grape_ 10y agoTo add to this - what they probably did was run an nslookup or dig against the domains themselves. And whatever IP resolved for those domains, they checked who owned that IP space. With a CDN, it won't show AWS, it'll show the CDN.
- SLaber89 10y agoYep! Apologies for the misinformation here.