I'm starting to see people mention this on Twitter, so just as a reminder: please blog about your migration off Cloudflare if you do the blogging thing.
Conversation
There are other caching reverse proxy services providing a pull-based CDN matching Cloudflare's most used service. Push-based CDNs are a different approach and not everything can be migrated to them. You can simply drop Cloudflare's main service in front of any web service.
They also provide load balancing / region steering without having to use their reverse proxy service. There are lots of managed DNS services with GeoDNS but rage4.com is a nice alternative because it's unmetered. Cloudflare's load balancing is expensive as hell.
1
1
1
Years ago, we used to use Cloudflare as a caching reverse proxy for updates before they reduced file size limit to 500M and disallowed using regular unmetered reverse proxy for anything but web sites. We moved to self-hosted DNS with GeoDNS and unmetered bandwidth VPS instances.
1
1
Show replies
Cloudflare is a caching reverse proxy sitting in front of your origin servers. It makes requests to the origin servers when it receives requests and then caches them primarily based on Cache-Control and legacy Expires headers. It pulls into edge nodes based on what's requested.
1
2
Show replies