Which functionality from Cloudflare do you need? They have quite of few offerings.
You won’t, unfortunately Cloudflare has no direct competitors.
@Ivan you can have all of the mentioned above within one login if you decide to check stackpath. I reached out to you on linkedin with no luck. Let me know if you want to connect and we talk more about your biz case.
Cheers!
> Google, Amazon, Azure are stand alone CDN
Not really sure what exactly you are looking for and at what price point, but Google and AWS both have domain registration and WW highly available DNS services.
It's DDoS protection that cloudflare can handle, and provide subsidized, that makes it so valuable.
I too am interested in what competing services are available to protect dns / routing from DDoS..
Without cloudflare protecting the server ip / DNS, it only takes a few people using [script name] to essentially make a web site inaccessible (via Denial or Service attacks).
If many people want to brigade and create DDoS against a site it can be impossible for people to use it to communicate with it / through it.
Not sure there is a good / strong enough alternative, and not sure what the average / semi strong alternatives are at this time actually.
Stackpath (previously maxcdn) has cdn/waf/dns with ddos. The service is actually really good and pricing very competitive. Support is knowledgeable and very helpful and the cdn has extensive customization options. Only downside I’ve seen is somewhat slower performance in Asia than comparable cdn’s. In terms of cost they blow cloudflare, fastly or aws out of the water once you start needing enterprise level features for small to medium size sites. I’m surprised they’re rarely mentioned on HN.
I think having separate DNS from your CDN isn't that big a deal, but bunny.net will combine both. Their DNS is currently in preview (open preview to anyone), but it looks like it'll be offering what you want.
Cloudflare has been taking a more expansive view of a CDN, but bunny.net seems to be going in that direction as well. They're offering CDN, DNS, storage, and video so far.
There's https://fleek.co/.
It's not a drop-in replacement, but relevant to the conversation here.
Haven't used it yet but it's increasingly on my radar.
There is no 1:1 Cloudflare alternative.
You can replace lots of their functionality with a variety of competitors but they also have some truly unique features you can't find elsewhere.
We've been using KeyCDN for some applications. It's comparatively cheap and is based in Switzerland, if that matters.
A couple that I know:
Sucuri: DNS, WAF and CDN
NOC.org: DNS, WAF and CDN
Akamai?
bunny.net keeps coming up, that's great! any takes on CacheFly?
It depends on why you use them. I use BunnyCDN which is fine for my usage. I use my own video transcoding servers (hosted on Netcup for suuuper cheap). I use Render for my applications. I use Cloudflare for a proxy, but could probably replace it in a week or so using Go + Caddy + a VPS of some kind and it would probably be fine for my use case.
It really depends on your use case and volume.