Cloudflare Cloudflare Argo Smart Internet Routing

eva2000 · May 19, 2017

Cloudflare has announced a new product offering for Argo for global internet smart optimised routing Introducing Argo — A faster, more reliable, more secure Internet for everyone

Cloudflare is launching Argo, a “virtual backbone” for the modern Internet. Argo analyzes and optimizes routing decisions across the global Internet in real-time. Think Waze, the automobile route optimization app, but for Internet traffic.

Just as Waze can tell you which route to take when driving by monitoring which roads are congested or blocked, Argo can route connections across the Internet efficiently by avoiding packet loss, congestion, and outages.

Cloudflare’s Argo is able to deliver content across our network with dramatically reduced latency, increased reliability, heightened encryption, and reduced cost vs. an equivalent path across the open Internet. The results are impressive: an average 35% decrease in latency, a 27% decrease in connection errors, and a 60% decrease in cache misses. Websites, APIs, and applications using Argo have seen bandwidth bills fall by more than half and speed improvements end users can feel.
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Today, Argo includes two core features: Smart Routing and Tiered Cache. All customers can enable Argo today in the Traffic app in the dashboard. Argo is priced at $5/domain monthly, plus $0.10 per GB of transfer from Cloudflare to your visitors.
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Argo Tiered Cache
Argo Tiered Cache uses the size of our network to reduce requests to customer origins by dramatically increasing cache hit ratios. By having 115 PoPs around the world, Cloudflare caches content very close to end users, but if a piece of content is not in cache, the Cloudflare edge PoP must contact the origin server to receive the cacheable content. This can be slow and places load on an origin server compared to serving directly from cache.

Argo Tiered Cache lowers origin load, increases cache hit ratios, and improves end user experience by first asking other Cloudflare PoPs if they have the requested content when a cache miss occurs. This results in improved performance for visitors, because distances and links traversed between Cloudflare PoPs are generally shorter and faster than the links between PoPs and origins. It also reduces load on origins, making web properties more economical to operate. Customers enabling Argo can expect to see a 60% reduction in their cache miss rate as compared to Cloudflare’s traditional CDN service.
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eva2000 · May 19, 2017

wow

Enabling Argo (and Smart Routing with it) results in breathtaking reductions in latency. As an example, OKCupid enabled Argo and immediately saw a 36% decrease in request latency, as measured by TTFB (Time To First Byte). Without Argo, requests back to the origin from a Cloudflare PoP traverse the public Internet, subject to vagaries of routers, cables, and computers they will touch on their journey. With Argo, requests back to the origin are tunneled over our secure overlay network, on a path to the origin we've learned the performance of from all the requests that have traversed before it.

Transit over the public Internet is like driving with paper maps; it usually works, but using a modern navigation system that takes current traffic conditions into account will almost always be faster.

Routing over intelligently determined paths also results in significant reliability gains. Argo picks the fastest, most reliable route to the origin, which means routing around flapping links and routers that refuse to do their job. In a real-world illustration of these reliability gains, OKCupid saw a 42% drop in the number of connection timeouts on their site with Argo enabled.

It’s not just OKCupid that’s happy with Argo. 50,000 customers, large and small, have been beta testing Argo over the last 12 months. On average, these Argo Smart Routing beta customers saw a 35% decrease in latency and a 27% decrease in connection timeouts.
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eva2000 · May 19, 2017

Expensive though at US$0.10/GB data transfers, for 40TB bandwidth = $4,096/month !

BamaStangGuy · May 19, 2017

We have it enabled on all of our forums.

eva2000 · May 20, 2017

Nice let us know what the billing cost is like as high bandwidth usage = expensive !

buik · May 20, 2017

Argo's TTFB seems a bit problematic.
Source comments: Introducing Argo — A faster, more reliable, more secure Internet for everyone

eva2000 · May 20, 2017

bassie said: ↑

Argo's TTFB seems a bit problematic.
Source comments: Introducing Argo — A faster, more reliable, more secure Internet for everyone
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yeah read that in the comments as well

TTFB will always be higher with a proxy in front and ultimately depends on speed between both visitor and cloudflare origin and cloudflare origin and backend origin.

Cloudflare Load Balancer would be better for TTFB if you used Geo-Steering to multiple geographic backend origins like my setup i posted at https://community.centminmod.com/th...ing-from-aws-route53-dns-to-cloudflare.11563/

Matt · May 21, 2017

Too expensive:

eva2000 · May 22, 2017

ouch almost $70/day = $2,100 per month based on that bandwidth usage !

rdan · Apr 8, 2018

I'm trying it for the last 2 days, and I can feel the difference in terms of speed.

pamamolf · Apr 9, 2018

I tested also and it is faster with it but very expensive....
I stop it after a few days as the monthly cost for my case will be around 1.000Euro :-(

eva2000 · Apr 9, 2018

eva2000 said: ↑

Expensive though at US$0.10/GB data transfers, for 40TB bandwidth = $4,096/month !
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expensive !

rdan · Apr 9, 2018

I'll enable it for a week or two then compare stats later.
Pure OVH Dedicated vs Cloudflare w/ Argo vs Only Cloudflare.

rdan · Apr 10, 2018

Don't have much money to Test so only took 3 days comparison.

With Pure OVH Dedicated Server:

+ Cloudflare & Argo:

eva2000 · Apr 12, 2018

Thanks for shairng the info/stats Hmmm doesn't seem like much of a difference for the amount of $$$ Argo costs unfortunately.

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