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Does Cloudflare have any competitors yet?

by tayl0r 14y ago

v33ra 14y ago
Akamai?
- moe 14y ago
  Apples and oranges. Akamai recently deflected an attack on the scale of 1 TBit/s and is present in pretty much every DC (~1000 POPs). CloudFlare has 23 POPs and brags about handling 65 GBit/s...
  - dsp 14y ago
    Do you have a source for the 1 Tbps attack? I'd like to read about it, but my search came up empty-handed.
    - eastdakota 14y ago
      :-)
    - donavanm 14y ago
      there are some public studies on DDOS size over the years. IIRC Arbor networks published some numbers earlier this year. IME tens of Gb/s is a mid size attack these days. Large is a hundred plus Gb/s.
      - dsp 14y ago
        I can't find any public reports topping ~100 Gbps. For example, here's a recent article that interviewed an Arbor employee and mentions a ~100 Gbps plateau: http://www.techweekeurope.co.uk/news/ddos-attacks-power2012-86926 http://www.techweekeurope.co.uk/news/ddos-attacks-power2012-...
        donavanm 14y ago
        Hrm, maybe Im misrembering. Found akamai claiming 125Gb/s in '09, and some more arbor quotes of ~110Gb/s. I'll see if I still have the report Im thinking of tomorrow. http://wwwns.akamai.com/rsa_2011/RSA_NOCC_DDoS.pdf http://wwwns.akamai.com/rsa_2011/RSA_NOCC_DDoS.pdf
    - moe 14y ago
      Only a sales rep bragging to me on the phone. He could have been lying but considering how uptight Akamai is about everything I doubt he made it up.
  - scoot 14y ago
    Akamai got into that many POPs by "giving away free bandwidth saving appliances" to the ISPs rather than paying to host their commercial edge CDN in a their DCs. Full marks to whoever came up with that spin! (This was circa 1999/2000).
semenko 14y ago
Perhaps Google PageSpeed Service, if they ever launch? https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/service https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/service
autoreverse 14y ago
https://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/ https://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/ ?
- spullara 14y ago
  CloudFlare is much more than a CDN.
snowwrestler 14y ago
DOSArrest predates Cloudflare and does a fantastic job of DDOS mitigation. But they are not cheap.

Does Cloudflare have any competitors yet?

by tayl0r 14y ago

Does Cloudflare have any competitors yet?

v33ra 14y ago

Akamai?

moe 14y ago
Apples and oranges. Akamai recently deflected an attack on the scale of 1 TBit/s and is present in pretty much every DC (~1000 POPs). CloudFlare has 23 POPs and brags about handling 65 GBit/s...
- dsp 14y ago
  Do you have a source for the 1 Tbps attack? I'd like to read about it, but my search came up empty-handed.
  - eastdakota 14y ago
    :-)
  - donavanm 14y ago
    there are some public studies on DDOS size over the years. IIRC Arbor networks published some numbers earlier this year. IME tens of Gb/s is a mid size attack these days. Large is a hundred plus Gb/s.
    - dsp 14y ago
      I can't find any public reports topping ~100 Gbps. For example, here's a recent article that interviewed an Arbor employee and mentions a ~100 Gbps plateau: http://www.techweekeurope.co.uk/news/ddos-attacks-power2012-86926 http://www.techweekeurope.co.uk/news/ddos-attacks-power2012-...
      - donavanm 14y ago
        Hrm, maybe Im misrembering. Found akamai claiming 125Gb/s in '09, and some more arbor quotes of ~110Gb/s. I'll see if I still have the report Im thinking of tomorrow. http://wwwns.akamai.com/rsa_2011/RSA_NOCC_DDoS.pdf http://wwwns.akamai.com/rsa_2011/RSA_NOCC_DDoS.pdf
  - moe 14y ago
    Only a sales rep bragging to me on the phone. He could have been lying but considering how uptight Akamai is about everything I doubt he made it up.
- scoot 14y ago
  Akamai got into that many POPs by "giving away free bandwidth saving appliances" to the ISPs rather than paying to host their commercial edge CDN in a their DCs. Full marks to whoever came up with that spin! (This was circa 1999/2000).

semenko 14y ago

Perhaps Google PageSpeed Service, if they ever launch? https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/service https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/service

autoreverse 14y ago

https://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/ https://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/ ?

spullara 14y ago
CloudFlare is much more than a CDN.

snowwrestler 14y ago

DOSArrest predates Cloudflare and does a fantastic job of DDOS mitigation. But they are not cheap.