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CloudFlare vs Amazon S3

by Mirnova
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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
#amazon #caching #cloud #cloudflare
  • Profile picture of the author RobKonrad
    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?

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  • Profile picture of the author msam029
    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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  • Profile picture of the author pbarnhart
    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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    • Profile picture of the author Global365
      If you host an entire website on S3 , how do you resolve your DNS to amazon?
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      • Profile picture of the author ranktrackerpro
        Originally Posted by Global365 View Post

        If you host an entire website on S3 , how do you resolve your DNS to amazon?
        Several ways you can do this. Getting your own Elastic IP and pointing your DNS to it is probably the easiest.

        Amazon also runs their own DNS service if you need the scale - I think they call it Highway 69 - their DNS product.

        Also - your site would likely be hosted on EC2 instance. The S3 is just data/content storage (in what they call 'buckets').

        And finally - don't count Rackspace out of this - in some ways they are actually better (no CPU throttling on the lower priced server instances, for example).
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  • Profile picture of the author RobKonrad
    I've recently set up cloud flare and it actually has DOUBLED my page loading time, according to pingdom tools...

    Pretty strange.

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    • Profile picture of the author damoncloudflare
      Originally Posted by RobKonrad View Post

      I've recently set up cloud flare and it actually has DOUBLED my page loading time, according to pingdom tools...

      Pretty strange.

      Cheers,
      Rob
      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.
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  • Profile picture of the author Pyrros
    +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.
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  • Profile picture of the author RobKonrad
    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...

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  • Profile picture of the author Ikmal Syifai
    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.
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  • Profile picture of the author warehouselarry
    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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    • Profile picture of the author damoncloudflare
      Originally Posted by warehouselarry View Post

      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.

      "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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