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eva2000 · Sep 30, 2016

Cloudflare introduces 2 new features to the product for Traffic Manager and Traffic Control

Control your traffic at the edge with Cloudflare

Cloudflare Traffic Manager: The Details

Today, we're introducing two new Cloudflare Traffic products to give customers control over how Cloudflare’s edge network handles their traffic, allowing them to shape and direct it for their specific needs.
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Traffic Control
Cloudflare’s new Traffic Control allows a customer to rate limit, shape or block traffic based on the number of requests per second per IP, cookie, or authentication token. Traffic can be controlled on a per-URI (with wildcards for greater flexibility) basis giving pinpoint control over a website, application, or API.
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Cloudflare’s new Traffic Manager enables a customer to keep their application running during a failure or better handle unexpected spikes in traffic by load balancing across multiple servers, datacenters, and geographies.

Traffic Manager has four major features: health checks, load balancing, failover and geo-steering.

Health checks automatically test the availability of individual origin servers so that Traffic Manager has a real-time view of the health of your origin servers. This information is used for failover and load balancing.

Load balancing automatically shares traffic across a collection of origin servers; if an origin server fails a health check it is automatically removed and load is shared across the remaining servers. For more complex environments an entire collection of origin servers can be removed from receiving traffic if the number of failed servers in the collection falls below some safe threshold.

Geo-steering allows a customer to configure traffic delivery to specific origin server groups based on the physical location of the visitor.

Health checks, load balancing, failover, and geo-steering work together to give customers fine grained control over their traffic.

Cloudflare Traffic Manager checks the health of applications from 100+ locations around the world, taking automatic action to route around failure, based on policies crafted by each customer.
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eva2000 · Sep 30, 2016

Wow Geo-steering is pretty close to what I need for centminmod.com which currently uses Amazon AWS Route53 geodns and geo latency based DNS routing for my cluster fo 12+ VPS servers geographically dispersed around the globle !

Clouldflare with Traffic Manager and Traffic Control have just gone head to head competing with Amazon AWS Route53, and DNSMadeEasy and Constellix and other GeoDNS based DNS providers !

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eva2000 · Sep 30, 2016

looks like for requesting early invite access to Traffic Control needs comfortable knowledge of curl, Python, Go, Ruby, PHP or REST API client

and email

Hi there,

Thanks for your interest in Cloudflare’s early access program for Traffic Control. We’re excited for you to try our new product, and look forward to hearing your feedback.

To gain access to Traffic Control, we’ll need to learn a little more about your use case; please access the form at the bottom of this email to provide us with this important information. We'll be reviewing submissions, and gradually on-boarding customers based on their responses.

Access Google Form: snipped form

If you are selected for early access, you’ll receive an email from us confirming the settings that we’ll deploy for you.

If you have any questions at all, please open a support ticket: Cloudflare Support

IMPORTANT
The rules you define in the following form will be applied to your site as defined. Client IP’s that trigger those rules will be blocked. The only way to turn a rule off or make changes is through a manual process conducted by Cloudflare, which can take up to a week during the early access program.

Because of this, we recommend adding the rule on either a staging site, a low-traffic URI, or with extremely high thresholds that you know would be considered malicious (e.g. 500 requests per second).
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eva2000 · Sep 30, 2016

For Traffic Manager which i really want in on

Early Access
Starting right now, we are accepting participants in our Early Access program, before we bring this service to all Cloudflare customers. Early Access requires some additional technical savvy, at first, and a willingness to share your feedback with us. For the duration of the Early Access program, Traffic Manager is free to use, with no charges. When introduced generally later this year, Traffic Manager will be available to all customers on all plans, with usage-based charges.

Fit the criteria? Fill out the Early Access form and we'll reach out with the details. We're keen to show off what Traffic Manager can do.
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eva2000 · Oct 1, 2016

Live demo Traffic Control: Live Demo

pamamolf · Oct 1, 2016

I hope to get for free traffic control

eva2000 · Oct 4, 2016

Ah Cloudflare Traffic Manager in beta stage is pure Cloudflare REST API non-gui based for now. So you have to know how to use their Cloudflare REST API to setup and configure Cloudflare Traffic Manager and write your own scripts for it

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eva2000 · Oct 4, 2016

Discussions at Cloudflare Traffic Manager | Hacker News

interesting about some Cloudflare users being asked to upgrade to Enterprise plans

This is definitely correct. Every Cloudflare pro plan site I know of now routes to LAX for South Korean users. For business sites, going over a certain amount of traffic, they also route to LAX for South Korean users.

I also have confirmed with Cloudflare support, that sites going over a certain amount of traffic have to upgrade to Business -> Enterprise plan to keep South Korean users to route to ICN (Seoul). This is causing huge continous performance problems for nearly all Cloudflare sites in South Korea.
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