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Francesco Boffa
CTO at ORDR · | 14 upvotes · 48.1K views
I don't think I have registered a domain in the last 10 years that hasn't been linked to CloudFlare within the first 2 hours from registration.
The benefits you get from even the free version of CloudFlare are amazing. From day 0: - 30/80% of bandwidth savings thanks to their CDN - Origin IP address protection - Managed SSL
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- Easy setup, great cdn424
- Free ssl277
- Easy setup199
- Security190
- Ssl180
- Great cdn98
- Optimizer77
- Simple71
- Great UI44
- Great js cdn28
- Apps12
- HTTP/2 Support12
- DNS Analytics12
- AutoMinify12
- Rocket Loader9
- Ipv69
- Easy9
- IPv6 "One Click"8
- Fantastic CDN service8
- DNSSEC7
- Nice DNS7
- SSHFP7
- Free GeoIP7
- Amazing performance7
- API7
- Cheapest SSL7
- SPDY6
- Free and reliable, Faster then anyone else6
- Ubuntu5
- Asynchronous resource loading5
- Global Load Balancing4
- Performance4
- Easy Use4
- CDN3
- Registrar2
- Support for SSHFP records2
- Web31
- Прохси1
- HTTPS3/Quic1
Pros of Incapsula
- Best of them5
Pros of MaxCDN
- Easy setup47
- Speed to my clients33
- Great service & Customer Support15
- Shared and Affordable SSL5
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- No support for SSHFP records2
- Expensive when you exceed their fair usage limits2
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What is CloudFlare?
Cloudflare speeds up and protects millions of websites, APIs, SaaS services, and other properties connected to the Internet.
What is Incapsula?
Through an application-aware, global content delivery network (CDN), Incapsula provides any website and web application with best-of-breed security, DDoS protection, load balancing and failover solutions.
What is MaxCDN?
The MaxCDN Content Delivery Network efficiently delivers your site’s static file through hundreds of servers instead of slogging through a single host. This "smart route" technology distributes your content to your visitors via the city closest to them.
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Akamai
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Netlify
Netlify is smart enough to process your site and make sure all assets gets optimized and served with perfect caching-headers from a cookie-less domain. We make sure your HTML is served straight from our CDN edge nodes without any round-trip to our backend servers and are the only ones to give you instant cache invalidation when you push a new deploy. Netlify is also the only static hosting service with integrated continuous deployment.
Fastly
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WP Rocket
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