CDN Cloudflare KeyCDN vs. Cloudflare CDN?

well hard to beat Cloudflare's number of pops = 76 locations and counting

If Cloudflare supported geodns, I'd try them out for centminmod.com

 

FYI, going to do a little experiment for centminmod.com soon comparing CDNs from

• centminmod.com origin
• centminmod.net origin
• keycdn
• cdn77
• maxcdn
• amazon cloudfront
• cloudflare

 

Just did webpagetest.org tests with centminmod.com on my own Amazon route53 geo latency cluster of VPSes with just fonts offloaded to KeyCDN vs Cloudflare on same site with different domain centmin.sh

Tested with 5Mbps cable speeds with 5 runs each test over Los Angeles, Paris and Singapore regions in Chrome browser.

centminmod.com wins over cloudflare for me

centminmod.com route53 setup has more redundancy as the origin is over 16+ VPSes servers so any one of those fail, the site should in theory still work once dns fail over kicks in. Cloudflare usually only has 1 origin for normal sites so if origin fails it will be down. But as my centminmod.com origin for centmin.sh on Cloudflare is also over my geo latency Route53 dns cluster, it also will survive origin downtimes

 

maxcdn http test for centminmod.com route53 vs centmin.sh cloudflare

http://tools.maxcdn.com/http?d1=centminmod.com&d2=centmin.sh

note, i haven't setup more optimised caching at page level on centminmod.com yet - that's next step

 

Yeah free is good.. just you don't learn anything new if you don't try it yourself and well there's no way to play with different SSL configurations on Cloudflare unless you host it yourself

 

Yeah for security Cloudflare better. Just I like my speed centminmod.com tuned up | Centmin Mod Community

 

Using https://pulse.turbobytes.com/ to test DNS response time from 91 worldwide locations

• centminmod.com - Amazon Route53 DNS
• centminmod.net - Rage4 DNS
• centmin.sh - Cloudflare DNS

 

indeed you can sort of see that in maxcdn tests at KeyCDN vs. Cloudflare CDN? | Centmin Mod Community too the TTFB usually includes DNS resolution time

 

2nd run

 

yeah

Pulse Turbobytes HTTP response tests (not DNS response tests) over 91 server locations

looks like Cloudflare had some issues or the test servers did ?



ah Cloudflare had issues from China location servers



but Amazon Route53 had same issues too



but notice the difference in times for CN - Shanghai

Amazon Route53 for centminmod.com which I have setup geo latency dns to direct to my Singapore based Centmin Mod LEMP stack VPS server

Code:

DNS     Connect     TTFB     Total
47    157    158    369    139.162.29.188:80

Cloudflare for centmin.sh where DNS time was 3.59x times slower, Connect was 1.45x times slower, TTFB was 3.92x times slower and total time was 2.78x times slower

Code:

DNS     Connect     TTFB     Total
169    228    619    1,024    104.27.173.154:80

 

internet is all about a level of trust that is needed

Big one is open source software - you're trusting developers and contributors `to do the right thing` with their code and trusting onlookers who inspect the open source code to know what they are doing or have a level of understanding for the code etc