We need another option for "just starting out" because the free option of CloudFlare kills so many people's SEO that it isn't worth the risk. Looking for a per-GB or cheaper CDN that isn't free...

Hey James, have you found a good alternative? Let us know!

You can use Sucuri WAF. It only costs $10 a month for unlimited bandwidth and as long as your servers are well optimized, Sucuri is a beast. Experiencing TTFBs of less than 200ms. Page load times of around 500ms.

Hi
"CloudFlare kills so many people's SEO" ?
But why please...?
Thanks

The Free Cloudflare has HTTP/2.0 caching activated by default, which slows down your site despite claiming that it accelerates your website. If you want to turn off the HTTP/2.0 caching so it can point directly to the HTTP/2.0 catching on your server, you have to pay for Pro at $20 a month. That points out at something they have done deliberately to make people upgrade. Google recommends a TTFB of at most 300ms. However, on the free plan, you won't be able to get anything below a TTFB of 600ms on Cloudflare due to the default HTTP/2.0 caching that you're restricted from disabling. As you know, a slow site is not ideal for SEO.

Hi Daniells, Is it still the same condition currently (2021)? Or things have changed lately?

Hello,

Nothing has changed. But Cloudflare introduced APO for WordPress sites. It slices down that TTFB to around 50ms. But there's a catch, it costs $5/month.

Thanks for your input Daniells -)
That's one the many resaons I quit CloudFlare and go to KeyCDN! a real CDN, not a proxy

Keycdn and amazon Cloudfront

Fastly works by pushing Varnish code to the edge, which can be of some benefit if you are a Varnish expert. For example, if you are being DoSed, you can customize your Varnish to mitigate. The code push to the edge is very rapid (typically almost all nodes in less than 5-10 min). You get good stats coverage via an easy to use REST API. Otherwise it's a bare bones CDN, eg no logging storage included etc. The only others I have experience with are AWS and Akamai. Akamai's too expensive for a small time user, pushing a new config takes up to an hour, and their customer service is terrible. They do store logs, and send a tag with HTTP errors that let you retrieve the log snippet where the error was thrown.

Thanks for sharing your first hand experience!

Stackpath now costs $25.00/month, maybe it's time to update this article.

The best side-by-side CDN article I've found! Thank you Karo

You missed a lot of locations for Cloudflare in your Google Map (there is more location in Canada now)

would love to see google cdn in the comparison