CloudFlare vs Amazon S3

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I'm looking for a solution to make out sites more scalable, not crashing on traffic spices. Some kind of doable cloud solution. So far most cloud servers have been a nightmare.

Anyway, I'm considering Cloudflare.com or amazon s3 along with w3 total cache on our wordpress blogs.

Anyone have experience with the two?

Can you give me some insights?

Whats you're recommends?

thanks
#programming #amazon #caching #cloud #cloudflare
  • Probably can't get more scalable than S3... and even they had issues recently when their CDN broke or something....

    What's your focus? Hosting large file? Speed of delivery?

    Cheers,
    Rob
  • Yes really s3 rocks. We have firefox plugin for managing the server so easy . Medium and large istnace is good.

    The really bad thing is they dont have cusomet support over phone or email
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    • Just a quick note that you could actually use S3 with CloudFlare as well. And I'm more than happy to answer any questions you have about CloudFlare.
  • I've moved several photographer's blogs to using CloudFlare - it rocks! Faster speeds, lower drain on the servers, and some very nice reports on the baddies hitting the sites for nefarious purposes.

    And yes - s3 and CloudFlare can play well together.
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    • If you host an entire website on S3 , how do you resolve your DNS to amazon?
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  • I've recently set up cloud flare and it actually has DOUBLED my page loading time, according to pingdom tools...

    Pretty strange.

    Cheers,
    Rob
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    • This actually seems unusual. I think this might be a time to first byte issue, which many services would have a hard time calculating with CloudFlare enabled, but the issue is outlined here.
  • +1 for Rackspace's cloud servers. It works incredibly well - been involved with a few projects running off their cloud servers and have been very impressed.

    They also have a CDN that can plug into Wordpress if I remember correctly.
  • For Rackspace, I had excellent loading times from within the states - but pretty bad ones from Europe. That was 2 years ago, don't know if they changed their CDN though...

    Cheers,
    Rob
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  • I will use Cloudflare, free plan is enough for testing purpose. You can continue with them if you get satisfying result, if not, just switch to S3.
  • I have not used Amazon S3, but I have used CloudFlare on several sites and experienced problems. Many times their caching would not allow content to be properly shared on Facebook and I had issues with some on-site scripts not executing correctly.

    I did not notice, nor could I prove with any tools, an increase in site speed or load time.
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    • "Many times their caching would not allow content to be properly shared on Facebook"
      Just a quick note that this may be Facebook security kicking in. Every case I've tested so far does post the content, but Facebook might delay things like images and the like.

      "some on-site scripts not executing correctly."
      The only features we have that would impact scripts are Rocket Loader and Auto Minify. If you had these turned on, turning them off should have resolved any script conflicts.
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    CloudFlare vs Amazon S3

    I'm looking for a solution to make out sites more scalable, not crashing on traffic spices. Some kind of doable cloud solution. So far most cloud servers have been a nightmare. Anyway, I'm considering Cloudflare.com or amazon s3 along with w3 total cache on our wordpress blogs.