Cloudflare CDN Discussions

Comments revolve around Cloudflare's CDN and related services like security and tunneling, highlighting its free tier, low costs, ease of use, and advantages over competitors like Akamai and Fastly.

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Sample Comments

anamexis Sep 27, 2022 View on HN

Cloudflare is much more than a CDN.

jiveturkey Jun 11, 2019 View on HN

Cloudflare pretty good at it also.

ceejayoz Oct 20, 2022 View on HN

Cloudflare's significantly cheaper in many cases.

mithras Jul 28, 2012 View on HN

Cloudflare might be ideal for this.

jackgavigan Jun 11, 2014 View on HN

I wonder why they're not using Cloudflare.

EtienneK Feb 9, 2022 View on HN

Why not just use Cloudflare for this?

tonyhart7 Sep 22, 2025 View on HN

why you acting like cloudflare forced people to use their services????there are a alternative on the market like akamai and fastlypeople free to use their favorite cdn over CF lol

ethor Oct 11, 2022 View on HN

How do you differ from Cloudflare?

linuxftw Feb 28, 2025 View on HN

Cloudflare is free. Give it a try.

spullara Sep 19, 2012 View on HN

CloudFlare is much more than a CDN.